According to Domestic Watch and South African Police Service training consultant Penny Steyn, the programme helps to inspire better relationships with employers, security infrastructures, companies and the police.
Individuals who attend the classes learn how to practise the kind of behaviour that can help prevent crime.
Participants are taught how to pass on information about criminals – and even report family members.
The February meetings will focus on the importance of knowing how to handle matters at the gate.
Steyn said it was essential that domestic workers use the gates for the purpose they are intended for: keeping homes safe and the unwanted out.
She said the courses would concentrate on all gates including main gates, garden gates, and sliding or security gates entering into rooms in the house.
Steyn encouraged more residents to sign their domestic workers up for the course.
“By having generosity of spirit we all can make a difference to our country, our family, and stop the horrors or at least curb some of them by doing the right thing,” said Steyn.
The programme takes place at different locations throughout the Parks, and welcomes all workers from the area to join in and learn.
25 February: 12pm at the The War Museum, on Eastwold Way in Saxonwold.
26 February: 12pm at the Methodist Church on 7th Avenue in Parktown North.
28 February: 10am at St Columba’s Church on Lurgan Road, in Parkview.
28 February: 12pm at Wesleyan Church, corners of Beaumont and Norfolk avenues, Craighall Park.
