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Nurturing Care Centre for Families
“The Nurturing Care Centre has changed the way that I think about parenting. I do not have to always shout to get my point across to my child. I [...]
Adi’s Transformation: A Story of Priorities and Family Reconnection
Adrian, affectionately known as Adi, hails from Delft near Cape Town and stays with his girlfriend and their 10-month-old baby while his other children, ages 5, 6 and 8, [...]
Samuel’s Story: Building Trust and Strengthening Bonds
Samuel, a single father of three children, (aged 4, 9, and 15 years), lived in Delft with his girlfriend until she passed away two years ago. He struggled to [...]
Natasha’s story: From tragedy to triumph
Natasha is a single mother of two boys, ages 10 and 15, and lives in Atlantis, roughly 65km north of Cape Town. Ten years ago, Natasha witnessed a disturbing [...]
Zoё’s Story: Opening new worlds through book-sharing
Zoё grew up in the suburb of Scarborough, a prestigious coastal resort-type town in Cape Town’s “Deep South”. She received a good education, and attended reputable schools, later studying [...]
Siyabonga’s Story
Siyabonga is a father of three-year-old twin boys and lives in Wallacedene, a small settlement in the Kraaifontein area in the Western Cape. He shares his home with his [...]
Becoming a Master Trainer
Prudence Pietersen hails from the small, remote Karoo town of Murraysburg in the Western Cape. She has been living in Cape Town since 2008 and took the role of Programmes [...]
Preventing violence is in our economic interests
Violence is woven into daily reality for many South Africans. The roots of this violence reach into complex spheres of historic oppression and ongoing inequalities – and addressing it today [...]
Book-sharing creating change in fathers
“Although the Mikhulu Trust book-sharing is just a drop in the ocean with the numbers we reach, it’s actually a big thing that can change a lot as far as [...]