Amanda, a 24-year-old young mother of a 4-year-old little girl, found herself battling the painful memories of her past. She did not know who she could share her pain with. The trauma of rape and the hardship growing up in a very poor family haunted her. But her story is not one with a sad
A child’s first experience in education plays a vital role in their development. HOPE worldwide South Africa (HWW SA) in partnership with Care for Education (CFE) have found ways to include education, fun and play in the everyday lives of young and vulnerable children. Care for Education has generously donated LEGO Charity Boxes to HWW
HOPE worldwide SA is excited to announce the expansion and launch of the SUCCEED partnership in the Mpumalanga province. SUCCEED is a flagship programme in partnership with Makro that supports Early Childhood Development Centres and Carers with young children. SUCCEED is now active in 7 provinces. The launch took place on the 15th of November
“The moment you forget you’re volunteering to help change lives because it’s changing yours.” Volunteers are vital to the success of our programmes, and every year we host international volunteers who join and journey with us to support our Early Childhood Development programmes. Recently, as part of ‘HOPE Singles Corps’, 27 single men and women
Lebogang Mokoena, a 32-year-old woman from Zandspruit, has 3 children aged 13, 9 and 5 years. She has raised them on her own because their father walked out on them. They faced hunger on a daily basis. Then things changed. Her kids were malnourished and unwell. “You’re hungry and then you are sick, it is
This Women’s month, 2017, we saw 400 amazing women graduate from our SUCCEED Parent Support Groups (PSGs) nationwide. We celebrate with them in their joy of being able to believe in themselves and also believing in a better future for their children. Our PSGs host many women on a weekly basis who face difficult conditions.
Joyce Nxumalo was hopeless. In Nxumalo’s eyes, “when things are not in your favor, your mind also dies down gradually.” She knew that she craved more from her life, but she didn’t know her fulfillment would come in the form of HOPE worldwide South Africa. Gogo Joyce is a 59-year-old a mother of four girls,
“Parents are a child’s first and most important teacher and home is the most important classroom”. But they need skills and support to help their children develop and thrive. Also, many children in South Africa still do not have access to formal early learning opportunities. HOPE worldwide SA’s Parenting programme is seeking to change that,
By very definition, to have compassion is to give attention to those among us who are suffering or enduring the most hardship. That was exactly the mission of fifteen American volunteers from the Columbia, South Carolina Church of Christ who joined us in June. The volunteers arrived in South Africa in an effort to extend