Our Services

Youth for Survival (YFS) trains unemployed youth and women coming from abusive relationships skills that can help them to become employable or self employed.

Offering Woman the opportunity to access facilities to  learn skills which can assist them for the future.  

The skills of manufacturing the Wonder Bag are taught to beneficiaries to enable economic sustainability through the employment opportunity which this skill enables as well as the income it generates.

Order :

• your very own Wonderbag  - Keep food warm in the pot for 6hours or longer
• Beaded items
• House Executive with child minder and basic Cooking and Baking skills

The Tshwane One Stop Safe House for Abused Women and Children is Youth for Survival’s transit shelter for abused women and children, where they receive a holistic support, which includes  free counselling, legal advise & skills training.

Offering women and children the opportunity of having a balanced homely atmosphere with a bed to sleep and nutritious meals daily while empowering them for the future.

Living the life first hand in the Tshwane 1 stop Safe House

 YFS partners with the South African Police Services (SAPS), Community Safety and the Gauteng Department of Social Development to work in Police Stations Victim Empowerment Centre’s. The organisation has a Social Worker, 5 Social Auxiliary workers and 15 volunteers who provide counseling services, emotional support, material assistance, hosting awareness programs and home visits to victims of various forms of abuse and  family related crimes. 

On a monthly basis we reach out to (stats) people in the program.

The SAPS works in conjunction with our Non Government /Non Profit Organization to empower abused women and children. They are usually in liaison with our Advise Centers (which are based at our head office as well as each of our branches) on availability in a safe house or shelter or any of the many other aspects which the Police acknowledge is best addressed by our qualified, 

This Legal Advice Awareness workshop programme targets women and children who are victims of abuse and aims to enable people to protect themselves from being exploited .

We offer pro-bona legal advice to abused women and the general public.

Please inquire at the empowerment center or the advice center for further information.

We over 120 volunteers placed in 10 schools in the North West and Gauteng provinces.  The facilitators are assigned to also run the Anti-Teenage Pregnancy Awareness Campaign, Anti-Bullying and Anti-Drug Abuse Campaign. The facilitators work alongside school Teachers. Volunteers become confidantes to learners thus becoming the eyes, ears and the hearts of the community. One of their valid core function is to make referrals for students who are experiencing social problems.

The program reaches (number) students aged (ages) a year. 

 Teenage pregnancy is one of the major factors exposing women to becoming victims of abuse later in life. YFS carries out Anti-Teenage Pregnancy Awareness Campaigns in schools across Tshwane Municipality. During the campaigns teenagers are taught about the health implications and social consequences of falling pregnant when they are still young. The participants voluntarily pledge to not fall pregnant until they are mature enough and financially independent.

Victims of abuse always fear the day the perpetrator is released.  We create an atmosphere whereby the victim is agreeable, face the reformed perpetrator so that she can at least relax and not live in fear.  We strive to have a continuous rehabilitating relationship with the ex-offenders to prevent such offenders from going back to crime.

As one get older one realise that the always easy tasks sometimes becomes a bit tricky.  We have caregivers allocated to the elderly to live in or to check up on their health and well-being during different intervals depending on the requirements.  We ensure  in certain instances that there is a cooked meal, the elderly person enjoys a daily bath, that their health are taken care of, that they have this extended hand to buy something at the shop if and when required, that they receive a balanced nutritional meal.

Our Community Nutrition Development  Centres in Brazzaville and Pretoria West feed over 600 plus beneficiaries daily.  We also offer them life skills and refer them to entities where we know certain skills are required or job opportunities are available.  We also offer our range of personal enhancement training cources which we hope to develop further and hopefully award recognition and qualification to the subject matters we offer.

Nutrition is one of the key fundamentals for each human's sustainabilitty.  If you are hungry one can't concentrate on anything what to say do anything productive.

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