Child Protection Week 2023!
In commemoration of the South African Child Protection Week (29 May – 5 June 2023), National Association Child Care Workers (NACCW) is introducing children’s mapping across its programmes to encourage children to draw expressions of being protected now and beyond. It is an important opportunity to give our children a platform to share their views of protection against child abuse and neglect.
We encourage all child and youth care workers to join us in advocating for child protection by asking children, how would you like to be protected now and beyond?
Deloitte and One Child One Family – Hope and Homes for Children SA to host a Career and Employment Readiness workshop to Children who are cared at the Departments Walter Sisulu Child and Youth Care Centre.
Background: 5.4 million children around the world are being raised in orphanages, and there are 21,000 children living in orphanages in South Africa.
The impact is lifelong, and they often leave as young adults who are unprepared to enter the workforce and unprepared for independent living. Hope and Homes for Children is supporting the Department of Social Development to strengthen families.
The organisation is working towards a child protection system is based on families, not orphanages.
The goal of Deloitte professionals South Africa will be working with Hope & Homes for Children to support young people living in orphanages and care leavers to gain life skills and increase their employability though tailored workshops.
Deloitte employees will deliver workshops to 300 young people living in orphanages and young care leavers as part of HHC’s Independent Living Programme, and in line with the Education pillar of Deloitte’s volunteering strategy.
Children were also empowered with information regarding Employment readiness and topics discussed amongst others were:
• CV and cover letter writing skills
• Interview skills
• Professionalism
• Job search strategies
• Workplace etiquette
And on Basic financial literacy, topics discusses amongst others were;
• Opening a bank account
• Budgeting
• Saving
• Credit and debt
• Renting
Mzukona Mantshontsho is the founder of Nyakaza Media Solutions. Nyakaza Media Solutions is an organisation that was established to help community organisations, business entities, and schools to research, write, document, report, analyse, edit, publish newsletters or bulletins in hard-copy, on-line and maintain websites with the relevant content as per the editorial policy of that organisation, school or entity.
Nyakaza Media Solutions has a vision to promote and bring dialogue to communities, businesses and schools about issues that affect them.
Nyakaza Media Solutions is on a mission to develop and encourage communities, businesses and learners to celebrate the good, applaud excellence, welcome growth, strive to be better individuals, businesses and communities, want more knowledge, discourage bad and counter-productive behaviour as well as communities, businesses and learners that want to be great SOUTH AFRICANS.
Nyakaza Media Solutions is making use of Yo School Magazine as a platform that learners in all schools to make use of to write their stories.
