ABOUT CHILDLINE GAUTENG
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Childline Gauteng is making a contribution through our services to
children and families. Our 4 key projects are ideally placed to
service the needs of children:
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Supportive therapeutic services
of 5000 individual and family counselling sessions and group
work offered from our fulltime Childline offices in the
Inner-city, Katorus, Tembisa, Sebokeng and Soweto
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The Child Rights and
Responsibilities Project reaches 90 school communities,
including teachers, learners and their parents. Training of
professional and lay people in the identification and initial
management of abused children also takes place
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Safe
House Project provides
97 warm loving homes in and around Gauteng on a short-term
basis to children who have been abandoned or removed from
their own homes in emergency situations.
Through these
projects we reach approximately 200 000 children and young people
every year.
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Childline is run according to business principles and based on the
ethics of democracy: responsibility; accountability; transparency;
human rights; and, respect for all cultures and creeds in
accordance with the philosophy of ubuntu.
Above all, we have learned that genuine caring for those who
have suffered, is the key ingredient in the healing process. It is
indeed true, that children learn what they live. We believe that
it is critical that we help to heal the wounds of violence
inflicted on their little bodies, minds and souls, in order to
ensure that they grow up with an awareness of the importance of
respect for all living creatures, thereby creating the possibility
of establishing a genuine rights-based culture in our province.
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Through our community development
offices in Soweto, Katorus, Tembisa, Sebokeng and the
Inner-city providing a centre from which the advocacy for a
culture of child rights is ongoing and assists children in need
concentrating on three key areas of responsibility
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