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Amastreetkid, The I CARE Blog, about "giving street kids a future": August 2010

Amastreetkid, The I CARE Blog, about "giving street kids a future"

Blogging about I Care, a Non-Profit Organization giving street children a future, a chance to become an effective member of society and to remove them from the influences of crime. Our process involves Awareness, Outreach, Rehabilitation, Housing, Education and Skills Development.

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A Non-Profit Organization giving street children a future and a chance to become an effective member of society and to remove them from the influences of crime. Our process involves Awareness, Outreach, Rehabilitation, Housing, Education and Skills Development.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Our Johannesburg boys


Three of our Johannesburg boys have been on our Khuthaza Rehabilitation Programme for the past three months. Having completed the course, two of them will be attending St. Anthony's Skills Centre in Boksburg, learning all aspects of the building trade - brick-laying, plastering, plumbing, electrical etc., and the third boy is to attend an ABET course in order to obtain a School Leaving certificate.
All three boys have been sponsored by Unitrans Sugar and Agriculture.

Lucky


Lucky (street name China) has been touching base with I Care for a number of years and recently he agreed to enter rehabilitation. I Care sponsored him at Harmony Retreat in Greytown where he went through their Christian Rehabilitation Programme for three and a half months. While he was there he was offered the opportunity to be trained in welding techniques and he is now close to completing his certificate in various aspects of welding. He has been living in Kranskop and going daily for one-on-one training with Ian Younge in Hermansburg. I Care is currently in negotiations with a potential employer for Lucky.

Friday, August 13, 2010

Jeffares & Green



CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY - a matter of the heart.
Jeffares & Green - a national engineering consulting company - understands more than most just how important corporate social responsibility is these days. Instead of spending money on gifts for clients and staff, management donated their entire gift budget to I Care. The money was used to educate nine rehabilitated street children. But it is not just about writing out a cheque to pay the teachers' salaries and buy the stationery and text books needed. It is about taking an interest in the lives of nine young people who were forced onto the streets through no fault of their own and giving them a better future and I Care is very grateful.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Armstrong Construction



Because I Care is involved in the rehabilitation and re-integration into the community of boys living on the streets I Care needs to equip them with a skill to enable them to obtain employment after they leave school. Without the assistance of some of our donors this would be an impossible task.
Armstrong Construction is such a donor. This company has stepped up and is not only employing one of our boys but is providing skills training at the same time. Micheal Mdlalosi has been offered this opportunity at the Armstrong Construction site in Isipingo where a new PEP store is being built
There are many young boys who have been through the I Care programme and, having completed their schooling, will require skills training and work opportunities. I Care now thanks Wayne Ric-Hansen and Dave Armstrong for providing two of these former street children with an opportunity to play their role in the development of South Africa.

Volunteer - Jetske


Jetske van Schaar has published a book on her experiences as a volunteer working with street children in South Africa and prefaced the book, entitled Helden van Zuid Afrika, with a note of thanks: -
"To everyone at I Care I thank you for allowing me and trusting me to follow you closely and write down your stories. I hope this book is an ode to the beautiful work you do. Baie dankie, ngiyabonga and keep up the good work."
Helden van Zuid Afrika is published in the Dutch language by De Boekenmakers.