Wanderboy was one of our high school program students in grade 11 in 2017. He loves our leadership development topics and felt inspired and empowered to take action and give
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Wanderboy was one of our high school program students in grade 11 in 2017. He loves our leadership development topics and felt inspired and empowered to take action and give
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Erica was a senior in our high school program in 2016. She is a natural leader, who through the developmental trainings and support that she received from our mentors, ended
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Zamani Sokhulu, started attending Simunye when he was just 6 years old in 2004. He encouraged his two siblings Promise and Lindo to attend as well. Zamani’s favourite subject was
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Lungelo Khomo, one of the early graduates of the leadership program, who first came across Seed of Hope when he was 17 and had completed school in 2012. Opportunities were
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Mandisa Nzama started in our Simunye program, as a young teen. She stood out from the beginning as a committed learner who excelled in everything she did. When she graduated
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Samkelo Hlophe, started to attend Seed of Hope’s primary school program, almost from the day the centre first opened- when he was just 10 years old. Over the years, as
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In our 2018 Khulanathi cycle 1, one of the students was dealing with a social and health crisis at home that had been affecting her and her child for along
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In October 2017, Seed of Hope facilitated our pilot Khulanathi process that included adult life skills, leadership development and the employment preparation sections. We had many attendees and 14 unemployed
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Sukoluhle is one of our staff members son’s who was finished school but unemployed. He decided to join our pilot employment preparation course in May 2017, and said that he
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In January 2016, we launched our newly overhauled sewing training program, which consists of three modules, from basics,to intermediate, to fashion design skills. Each module now includes practical products that
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In July 2017 we started our initial Khulanathi process pilot with two week’s of adult life skills and leadership development. This section of the process was actually requested by members
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Mlondi said “I was so excited and nervous at the same time when the interview came, but I’m happy that I was prepared, and during the training I learnt all my previous mistakes and corrected them”.
A little while ago a young lady visited our health team, hoping to find someone who would listen to her story and offer advice without judging her. Caught up in a
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A couple of weeks ago during our staff meeting we looked at HIV-related statistics and what these numbers actually mean to us in our daily ministry at SOH.
We used styrofoam cups
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(November 2014)
We believe people have skills, access to resources and social connections that they can or do already use. Building on those assets is empowering and allows people to
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(November 2014)
Manager of Agriculture and Business Development at Seed of Hope, Dan Wiens, shares his passion for Conservation Agriculture and explains the difference it makes for local farmers.
(August 2014)
Perhaps you’ve read When Helping Hurts (Corbett & Fikkert), or come across articles that encourage westerners to give thoughtful consideration of the kinds of assistance we provide in
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(August 2014)
Michelle Waldron shares a story that is all too familiar in South Africa. He is almost 6 weeks old. She is just over 2. Their mom abandoned them
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(August 2014)
Kerry Wiens shares about her opportunity to be part of the “I Heart Market” with some of the graduates of the Sewing Program at Seed of Hope.
It
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(August 2014)
Approximately 30% of the population of the province we serve in South Africa is HIV+? That is 1 out of 3! Yet people are still quite ignorant about
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(April 2014)
As a 12 year old school boy, Zephania used to get up at 2am in the morning to work
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(Taken from news letter December 2013)
With colourful jumping castles, incredible volunteers, sizzling “boerewors” (South African sausages) and mountains of prizes wrapped under the tree, the Simunye Christmas Party was
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