Aga Sechaba community project fights subtance abuse in the north
“We assist service to drug users who are willing to go to rehab with the admission process.”
A local project has set out programmes to rescue drug users.
Drug users will be able to access outpatient treatment centre, prevention and awareness campaigns, and an aftercare programme.
Board member of Aga Sechaba community project, Mapula Lefifi (31) said they provide services for drug users who are willing to go to rehab with the admission process in the north of Pretoria, Ga-Rankuwa.
“The founder of the project, Lehlohonolo Moses Letsoalo was inspired by his experience with drugs and substance abuse to start the project.
“Aga Sechaba received support from the ward councillor, the local Department of Social Development, the municipality’s Department Social Welfare, schools, churches and other NPOs in the community.
“We have social workers who engage and implement all these interventions and the services are free,” she said.
Lefifi said Aga Sechaba first operated in Atteridgeville and Pretoria CBD in 2008 and registered with Social Development in 2010.
“In 2014, the project relocated its services to Ga-Rankuwa as there was no registered NPO assisting the community in dealing with drug usage.”
This comes after the South African National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (Sanca) urged citizens to fight substance abuse as drug users were mostly youngsters.
Lefifi said a large number of youth in the community were drug addicts.
“The community members no longer live freely in their homes because of their family members who are drug addicts,” she said.
Lefifi said the township has residents who face the same fate as all other South Africans in the previously disadvantaged communities of inequality, poverty and high rates of unemployment.
“These three monsters have a way of influencing the youth into making unacceptable choices and decisions like engaging in substance abuse,” she said.
Lefifi said they will be having food parcels distribution in the next coming weeks.
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