Voices from the Field

Strengthening Families in the Face of Substance Abuse in Khayamandi Voices from the Field | Mikhulu Trust A growing emergency in Stellenbosch's rapidly changing township reveals a community reaching for support — and a system that isn't reaching back. Something has shifted in Khayamandi (Kayamandi). Those of us working in the community — running psychosocial support groups, sitting across from mothers and fathers and teenagers in moments of real vulnerability — can feel it. Substance use has moved from something whispered about in private to something people are willing to name in a room full of others. [...]

The Parenting Shift Nobody Expected Voices from the Field | Mikhulu Trust More Than We Bargained For Nobody signs up to a book-sharing programme expecting it to change the way they talk to their teenager. That is not the pitch. The pitch is simpler: sit with your young child, share a book, build their early language and literacy in the years that matter most. Zero to six. The science is clear, the need is urgent, and the method is disarmingly straightforward. A caregiver, a child, a book. Dialogic book-sharing — the practice Mikhulu Trust has spent over a [...]