In commemorating Youth Day, Tsogang Sechaba Community Project celebrated the day through an educational programme of educating children.
The main purpose of the programme was to teach the children about HIV/AIDS and how to protect themselves from the infection. The event was held at Tsogang Sechaba premises in Chiawelo.
Protecting yourself when you have sexual intercourse was the order of the day and the children were taught that protection can reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexual diseases.
Tsogang Sechaba employees were also part of the event and they wore school uniform in remembering the Soweto Uprising. One of the employees, Ntombi Mcwabe said they were celebrating the day in honour of the school children who died and injured on June 16, 1976.
She said the day marks the event whereby high school learners in Soweto stated protesting for better education and police responded with teargas and live bullets, injuring and killing some of the learners who were protesting.
On that day of June 16, 1976 school children finally showed their anger fighting against the use of Afrikaans to be used as a medium of instruction for certain subjects in schools.
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Tsogang Sechaba deals with helping disadvantaged children by providing food for them and give them free counselling regarding their setbacks. It was established in 2006 and is based at Chiawelo Extension Three.
Since its inspection, it has managed to form a working relationship with national institutions such as The South African NGO Coalition (SANGOCO), Child Welfare, Department of Social Development, Department of Home Affairs, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital and Soweto Gospel Choir among others.
The project has managed to grow the number of orphans and vulnerable children to about 1 000 and the number is still growing as demand for their service is still high.
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