By Omar Bahar | Report Writer
Dear Afrika Tikkun Friends and Family,
Happy Holidays to you and your loved ones and Happy New Year! On behalf of our beneficiaries, thank you for your unwavering support. Your support makes the future of South Africa a promising one. You enable us to carry out our important work of providing services to those who are in disadvantaged positions to break the poverty cycle.
How We Help Build the Future
Youth are an integral part of any society. They truly are the future because they will be entering the workforce in many different fields. At Afrika Tikkun, we serve the needs of youth who have limited access to resources. We prepare our youth for the future through job training programs such as computer training and also help those who do not have adequate nutrition or health services. Many of our youth return to Afrika Tikkun as employees or volunteers because they believe in Afrika Tikkun as they have experienced the benefits of our programs.
The New Year
Our goal in 2015 is to continue empowering youth through the Sustainable Future Project. Our goal is to not only improve the future of South Africa, we want to make this improvement sustainable so that the youth of South Africa are at the forefront of breaking the vicious poverty cycle.
Success Story of Nomawethu Z. and Vuyokazi F.
Meet Nomawethu, lay coordinator of Afrikka Tikkun in the Mfuleni community. While traveling from door to door to visit those in need in the community she came across a woman named Vuyokazi who was unable to walk, care for herself, and was bed ridden due to sickness. Nomawethu wrote down her information and contacted the nurse coordinator so Vuyokazi could be admitted as a new client.
Upon hearing of Vuyokazi’s situation, Sister Field and Qotsi joined Vuyokazi in conducting a home visit to assess Vuyokazi’s living situation. During the visit, they found that her living conditions were poor and referred her to FSS in order to get food because she was dependent on a child support grant.
Nomawethu visited Vuyokazi three times a week to bathe her, monitor her treatment, and provide her with health education. Nomawethu referred and attended SHAWCO Rehab exercise classes with Vuyokazi once a month—these physical therapy routines were practiced during their visits.
When April approached, Vuyokazi was able to walk long distances without a wheelchair, bathe, cook, and take her medication on her own without being dependent on Nomawethu and her mother.
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