Local organisation brings government services to community
The Chain of Change awareness event was successful and the organisation plans to hold future events.
Residents of Stoffel Park in the far east of Mamelodi were encouraged to make use of different stakeholders and government departments to deal with any social issues.
This follows after the Stoffel Community Builder organisation held a Chain of Change awareness event at Stoffel Park next to Mavendeng on Wednesday.
“We have invited different stakeholders and government departments to come and give information to the public about their different services,” Lucky Makhubedu from Stoffel Community Builder said.
Makhubedu said the vision of the organisation is to work hand in hand with the government to help Stoffel Park residents in case they need any help with referrals to the right organisations.
“The Chain of Change awareness event believes in unity and working together as one community,” said Makhubedu.
“If we work in unity, we bring a lot of change within our different communities by sharing ideas and information.
The main aim is to see all the stakeholders in Mamelodi working together with different government departments to bring change in the community in terms of fighting crime, unemployment and poverty,” he said.
The Stoffel Community Builder organisation will work as a middleman by sharing information with the community: where to get help, especially with social issues, for example, if you need social workers or drug organisations and/or skills development centres.
Different government departments, from Home Affairs, Labour, SASSA to police, attended the event and talked about their services and handed out pamphlets.
Makhubedu said the event was a success as community members came out in their numbers.
“This is not a once-off awareness event; we are planning to host another awareness event, but the plan now is for different organisations to host one-on-one sessions with the community.”
Gender based-violence (GBV) and femicide were raised during the event.
Police advised GBV victims and the community to break the silence and speak up.
Makhubedu said all the invited organisations rendered their services for free.
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