ABOUT US
Yakhani Niqhame is a non-government organisation with a primary mission to assist children from child headed households with aftercare facilities, given the number of school children who are left to themselves without any adult supervision in the townships.
Yakhani Niqhame’s core function is to provide support and assistance to children from child-headed households. This would be afforded by means of homework assistance or supervision, extra mural activities and holiday care programmes. Upon further evaluation we as an organisation established a division that addresses the need for support for persons with disabilities.
Our vision is to become an influential organisational development in South Africa and to be widely recognised as a nurturing, competent and a well-informed organisation that will make a notable contribution towards the educational and personal development of South African children.
Key Values
The idea is to address basic needs which will have a tremendous and direct impact on the future of children from child headed households.
• Developing stronger communities
• Empowering our Youth
• Ensuring that each child is valued
• Building the confidence in each child which we engage with
• Maintain confidentiality
All aspects of the centre will be focused on and include aspects of social development.
Individuals requiring support and assistance will be incorporated into all activities and
workshops held at the centre. Various outreach activities will be implemented, benefiting
people identified by the directors and members. Programs will be implemented for job
creation and training for graduates entering the workplace, as well as linking companies to
individuals seeking work and equipping them with interview skills.
• Support programmes for families/caregivers as well as people living with
disabilities
• Disability awareness and educational programmes
• Day-care programmes for adults and children living with disabilities
• Disability rights awareness programmes
School
Daily operations of the centre (school terms)
Open the centre at 06h30 to serve breakfast to children from disadvantaged and child headed
house- holds in the community
At 14h15 school children are ferried in mini buses from their schools to the aftercare centre
where the following programme takes place:
• Light lunch is served (prepared by the centre’s kitchen staff)
• Homework is then attended to
• Extramurals activities commence – this would be either sports, arts and craft or music
• On Tuesday and Thursdays – a psychologist or social worker is made available on an
ad-hoc basis
• Tutors made available for children who may need it for specific subjects
• At around 17h30, the children are offered supper. Thereafter, they are ferried to their
respective homes
The above eliminates the challenges of homework supervision and supper which
would normally be prepared by their older siblings or grandparent/s on their return
home from their places of employment and of course the challenge that hits most
children from disadvantaged backgrounds – lack of adult supervision.
- Supervision of learners
- Extra mural activities
- Workshops(social skills, arts and crafts etc,.)
- Excursions
Life skills
Sexual health and reproduction workshops
Presentation skills
Career Guidance
Social Skills
Business Skills
Career Expos
To ensure the growth and development of South Africa, Yakhani Niqhame believes that our societies need to be empowered!
PO Box 3534, Parklands, 2121 Johannesburg, South Africa
Telephone/ Cellphone: 073 337 2335
Email: info@yakhaniniqhame.org.za
Registration number: 2018/408951/08
Social Development Database number: NGO 220-121