Team Zodwa: NYDA Khulisa National Programme

Life Skills Training
NYDA Training at Khulisa
Team Zodwa
training volunteers
 in Hekpoort
We have been very blessed to be involved in a National Pilot Project with Khulisa Social Solutions. This National Youth Development Programme is very exciting and Khulisa has taken on 1000 volunteers. This is a huge undertaking and Team Zodwa has been tasked with implementing several volunteer projects.  We will be blogging about the progress of each of our volunteer programmes to keep you inspired and updated.

Team Zodwa has been very busy with intense training at the Khulisa head office in Rosebank. Vicky Sepp Care Giver for Meals on Wheels has joined the programme and will be assisting Kim in the Moffat View and South Hills NYDA  projects in between her full time job as an Advanced Life Support Paramedic for the fire department.

The programme involves taking on various volunteers already volunteering their time at NGO's in and around Johannesburg.  For two months these young volunteers will earn a small salary, learn skills and be trained in life skills.  They will receive a certificate in the skill trained and will be assisted in compiling a CV.  For most of these young volunteers this is the first time they will earn an income so part of the training will be how to open and manage a bank account. This has been a very exciting and empowering time for the volunteers, who now feel very valued and dignified. They are part of a work force for the very first time. Capitec Bank have been very helpful and have even come out to our projects to sit with the volunteers and open accounts on site.

The Volunteers have a "clock in and clock out sheet" that must be signed daily recording their work hours, and where they have volunteered.  All their efforts and new skills learned are captured and recorded.

The programme allows NGO's to reward those special individuals that have been volunteering for them without any financial reward to walk away with a qualification, a CV and valuable experience making them more employable.

Moffat view Classroom
We hope these stories will inspire you to go out and make your own mark in the world around you and to realise that not all is lost in our country - that there are so many people who have nothing yet they still volunteer with passion within their communities for no monetary reward, but know they can put their head's down at night where every it may be, under a tree, on a concrete floor and know they made someone else's life better today.

welcome to this wonderful journey of transformation in the lives of these very special young South Africans.  Give some own hope and dignity - sit back and watch the magic happen .....
warmest Kim Williams (Founder Team Zodwa)


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