Young Women

Usindiso Board Directors and Management made the decision to incorporate the Teenage Girls Shelter into the Women’s Shelter to be able to focus on our main objective, namely ‘Women’. The fourth floor now accommodates young women aged from 17 to 21 years, who are at school, studying further, or are in a training programme.

This floor can accommodate up to 30 young women and there is a Housemother present to make sure that there is order, duties are done, homework is done and also to be a listening ear and a shoulder to cry on when needed.

All the young ladies attend Youth on Friday evenings at Rhema South in Alberton, where they have gained acceptance and self-confidence, as well as learned good basic morals and standards, according to our Christian principles. 
 

President's Award

Our girls are involved in the President's Award which gives them the opportunity to meet and mix with youth from other areas and also teaches them life skills and values for them to use both now and in their future lives. They need to get involved and work to assist those in need in the community. One of these projects is a Baby Project, where they spent the day taking care of the little ones.
 

SPCA

Trainer Michelle Moll from the SPCA taught the girls about respect, both for themselves and for life. It was an eye-opener for the girls to learn that people who abuse animals will also abuse people.