Believers Care Society wins gold

Believers Care Society (BCS) won the Thuliswa Nkabinde-Khawe Awards (gold) for best performing NPO at the Gauteng Premier Service Excellent Award on February 27.

Alexander Iheme, centre manager at BCS, said they are grateful to God for this great award.

They also wish to thank the Premier of Gauteng David Makhura and his team for creating such a platform that recognises great work done by the civil society organisations, departments and individuals to serve humanity and fulfilling the vision of Gauteng province.

“It is always a good feeling when one’s hard work is recognised; however, to every great honour, comes greater responsibility.

“To us as Believers Care Society, it is a call to greater responsibility, a higher call to service and we will do more for the youth of Gauteng.

“The socio-economic challenges faced by the youth are multifaceted and must be addressed through an integrated holistic approach

“Incorporate services and strategies that addresses youth poverty and unemployment, gender-based violence, social integration and cohesion, mental health issues, disease awareness, treatment and control without any form of stigmatisation, and most importantly the youth need a role model, they should find it in our leaders and not in their peers, streets and social media.

“Leaders that they can look upon that translate words into action, upright leaders that lead by example, leaders that show that fearing God is the beginning and fundamental requirement for every great leadership,” said Alexander.

Believers Care Society would like to thank the Department of Social Development Gauteng province which provided the funding towards achieving their objectives for poverty alleviation and sustainable livelihood for the youth of Johannesburg.