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Angels of Glory: Youth Advocacy & Empowerment Project

In the rural areas of Temba and Moretele in the North West province, drugs and crime have become widespread amongst young people. A 60% unemployment among youth, with 33% having never worked a day, exacerbate matters. In this environment, Angels of Glory provides youth advocacy and empowerment. It serves as a haven for juveniles in conflict with the law and helps them develop skills that could be used to better themselves.

 Youth in the province in trouble with the law and under the age of 18 are not sent to jail but now referred to the Angels of Glory programme.  It began in 2002, and is run as a rehabilitation and skills development programme. It teaches the importance of school and morality and offers training in specific skills in areas like agriculture, entrepreneurship, specifically glass making.  Over the last 4 years, more than 500 youth have worked through the 6-month programme, some of whom have stayed on to work.  It is a youth run project with 20 staff, consisting of social workers and educators. Funding for the project comes from the Department of Social Development, which just finished providing a three-year grant.  In addition, there are referral relationships with the Department of Justice and SAPS and they receive tracking and statistical assistance from GCIS, training from the Department of Education, event planning from the Department of Public Works, and classrooms from Orbit FET college.

Innovation

Angels of Glory's approach to offender rehabilitation - moving away from penalising to rather giving them another chance is important to stop the cycle of recidivism, endemic to South Africa's crime problem. 


Effectiveness

562 youth have gone through the programme, 140 have received an additional agriculture training, 35 have been training in glass making, 77 in entrepreneurship, and 263 have gone through the rehabilitation programme.  For this they are funded by the Department of Social Development.  They received a R835,000 grant in 2005 and R580,000 in 2006.

Poverty Impact

Through skills training and rehabilitation, the project is combining two different ways to combat poverty.  Rehabilitation as a way to keep youth away from crime and drugs and allow them to be productive; and skills training gives them other options than turning to crime.  If the programme is successful, the youth having undergone the programme, will become more beneficial to the community.

Sustainability

The project is exploring other avenues for funding to delink them from being soley dependent on the grants from the Department of Social Development.

Replication

The programme is replicable and a satellite office at Mmukubyane in Moretele was established in 2006. 

Partnerships

  • Department of Social Development
  • SAPS
  • Department of Justice
  • GCIS
  • Department of Education
  • Orbit FET College
  • Department of Public Works
  • Municipality.

 

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