Nellmapius organisation supports youth
The organisation donates and provides psychosocial support, experiential learning as well as career guidance.
Masiyeni youth empowerment under the Greater Grace church in Nellmapius strives to move youth from the streets and help them make better life choices.
According to Empowerment co-ordinator Thinkwell Ncube (39) they donate, including sanitary towels to young girls.
“Here we are talking about dignity… did you know there is a child out there who is using a cloth during that time of the month?
“Because they cannot speak or ask but now they know that if they approach us, we can help wherever we can,” he said.
Ncube said they also provide psychosocial support, experiential learning as well as career guidance.
“I believe that psychosocial support is essential because we sit down and talk and encourage youth to face their fears.
“The biggest problem is we are quick to judge them as adults and they end up withdrawing from their social life.
“Young people have ample time in their hands. We just have to keep them busy with something meaningful in their lives and they love it when we give them that attention,” he said.
Ncube said they also do community outreach programmes such as distribute food parcels, school uniforms and intervention workshops on societal issues.
“Poverty is caused by high rates of unemployment, school dropouts and a lack of infrastructure for skills upliftment.
“We must stop giving fish to our people but teach them how to catch one,” he said.
Ncube said they provide guidance about teenage pregnancy and alcohol abuse as well as HIV/Aids.
“Teenage pregnancy rates are so alarmingly high it is scary. We are conducting workshops to help decrease the rate.
“We hope to have camps soon when we get help to teach them about self-value and consequences of such acts.”
Ncube said they started in 2018 as they realised the traumatic and challenges the youth in the church were going through.
“And we decided to do something about it, to give them a platform to dream again and vent their issues.”
“We are doing this because we love people as God loves them.
“We want them to have a place they can call home and move from the streets and make better life choices.”
Ncube said for now they need donations to be able to run these programmes.
“We run these programmes sometimes through the church and sometimes from our own pockets.”
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