About us
Who we are
The organisation was originally established during January 2011 and the Thandanani Drop-in Centre was formally registered on 3 May 2013. The need for establishing an organisation and programmes that are dedicated to the upliftment of the community and the betterment of life within the community was recognised by two young, unemployed residence of Mamelodi East, Thabo Kgotsi and Tswayi Victor. They started their first programme with the assistance of 12 volunteers working towards change and improvement of daily living in the community. Youth engaging in the programme enjoyed the benefits and support provided by the Thandanani centre and the programmes. As a result, many more young people volunteered to became involved in the programmes. Today there are approximately 150 volunteers dedicating time and various types of support to the Thandanani Centre, from where programmes and activities, addressing a multitude of socioeconomic issues, is provided to community members, ranging from young children to the elderly.
Our programmes primarily focus on:
- Addressing social ills in the community,
- Fighting Substance Abuse,
- Feeding children during school holidays and after school programmes,
- Assisting children with homework and to provide recreational and extramural activities after school and during school holidays,
- Providing guidance and support to the youth to assist with job placement,
- Working towards clean and healthy environments,
- Engaging young people in recreational and sport activities,
- Early Childhood Development (ECD) programmes.
We have assisted 150 unemployed youth apply for job opportunities and 50 were successful and now are employed.
The aim of the Centre is to push back hunger, unemployment, poverty, Gender Based Violence and Drug Abuse that are ravaging our community. Thandanani volunteers go around cleaning public institutions such as schools, clinics, hospital, police station and illegal dumpsites.
We believe that our project will bring change in our community and reduce drug dependency, poverty and unemployment and during the year 2015 the Centre introduced chess classes to teach young people the game for its obvious ability to exercise the mind and this will automatically teach them to think before taking decisions in life.
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