South African export supports violence and crime reduction in UK
Inner-city London and the rutted roads of a poverty-stricken township in KwaZulu-Natal may seem worlds apart but appearances are deceptive - both face significant challenges with crime, violence and victimisation particularly among young people.
Khulisa Social Solutions is a 21-year old South African NPO with an international footprint that runs holistic programmes to facilitate wide-scale, positive social change. It is among a small minority of innovative organisations who are exporting ‘developing world’ solutions to the developed ‘West’ and implementing those ideas in new settings in a reversed development model.’
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Khulisa began in 1997 and in 2007 expanded to the UK where it has successfully implemented programmes adapted from those applied in the most fragile, under-resourced and challenging conditions of South Africa.
Over the last 10 years, Khulisa UK has delivered programmes that develop the social and emotional skills of young people in schools, prisons and other community settings. To date, Khulisa has supported over 3500 young people and trained over 2000 professionals in their approaches.
Khulisa’s programmes demonstrably increase self-esteem, well-being, educational inclusion and reduce violence and offending. 90% of their young participants go on to thrive in mainstream education and 93% of those in prison go on to live crime-free lives.
Khulisa UK is passionate about helping all young people to realise their potential. They have generated robust, demonstrative evidence to show that implementing well-being at the heart of education and rehabilitation is more effective at empowering young people to break the cycle of crime and social exclusion.
Khulisa UK addresses the root-causes of crime and violence through multi-stakeholder engagement and is a recognised expert in tackling youth exclusion, violence and offending. They support national and local British government policy development with partners including the Ministry of Justice, Home Office and the Major’s Office for Police and Crime (MOPAC). In 2018 they received the prestigious Robin Corbett Award for their work supporting prisoner rehabilitation.
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