Help protect 1000 children from child abuse

The Jerry Giraffe Sunday School program was taught to seven of the little ones at the parish of St Mark's District 6. They started the program at the end of July and finished at the end of September. Teacher Jo Anne Van Niekerk faced some challenges as some of the children were not there every Sunday but she managed to get all the lessons over to them. 

They completed the ten sessions under the guidance of teacher Jo Anne Van Niekerk. The children had great fun whilst being taught very important life skills lessons that will help protect them from the dangers of child abuse. Teaching the children about the importance of their bodies and body pride, how they should treat each other with kindness and how to care and protect their bodies. The ten week program successfully ended with a certificate celebration. Teacher Jo Anne treated the little ones to delicious cup cakes and party packs, the children enjoyed the celebrationas much as they enjoyed the lessons taught over the past few weeks. 

We look forward to receive more updates from other parishes in 2019.

The 5 institutes that attended our Jerry Giraffe training last year October 2017 are facing a few major challenges such as: 

• New placements takes place often in the child and youth care facilities and teachers are working on finding a solutionn around this so that they can continue with the program without any interference.
• Fikelela will visit these institutes in 2019 again, and see how they are coping and if more support from our side is needed.
• Offer training to new teachers and  at the same time open the training as a refresher course to those teachers who's not confident enough to faciliate the program on their own.