Our Academic Portfolio

Our Academic Portfolio provides Numeracy and Literacy intervention to underperforming Grade 2 and 3 Learners, to enable them to keep up with the academic curriculum. Our Numeracy and Literacy Programs is running at 2 schools in the southern suburbs and is based on the model designed “Jolly Phonics” We use assistive reading technology, by personalising the learning experience, assistive technology supports diverse learning styles and abilities, leading to improved academic performance and heightened engagement. Additional, assistive technology empowers students with disabilities to foster more independent learning.

Our Life Skills: Adolescent Reproductive Health Portfolio

Our Life Skills: Adolescent Reproductive Health Portfolio portfolio provides teenage awareness programs to equip learners to thrive in the face of the challenges of their context and adolescence and become active citizens. We run a series of one-hour sessions, to four Grade 4 classes, our Life skills program is a one full year, every year we target a new enrollment of Grade 6.

Welfare Department

Home visits where there are allegations of abuse, our social work will do a home visit to assess the family’s home situation, pending the outcome, she will either refer the matter for statutory intervention. We also provide learners with counseling and group work.

GENDER BASED VIOLENCE PROGRAM

Schools cannot be safe spaces for children especially girls until gender-based violence is addressed. Currently, interactions among students involve bullying, sexual harassment and aggressive behaviour largely by boys directed at girls.

Yet, with appropriate intervention, schools can provide an enabling environment for the prevention of gender-based violence.

Physical, sexual, and emotional abuse of children of school age in the country is often perpetrated by people they know and occurs mostly in their homes, community, and schools.  A 2003 survey conducted in South Africa reported that 27 percent of school girls interviewed stated their teachers had pressured them for sex, 25 percent stated they know at least one teacher having an affair with a school girl, and 79 percent stated they were sexually harassed by male classmates.

“Skills development opportunities are critical to enabling communities to build their confidence, unleash their potential and earn an income. By having a greater degree of financial independence, they are less likely to return to their abusers because they can support themselves and their children.

The main objective of the Program is to provide quality counselling services to children and youth who are victims of school related gender-based violence.  We also provide training in counselling to stakeholders of the target community to enable them to counsel the students themselves.

CFYDP is providing the necessary intervention through provision of support services to victims of school related gender-based violence, creating avenues where such cases can be reported, and through the establishment of a gender violence survivor’s support network (GVSSN) in the targeted community to provide other support services to survivors. CFYDP also sets up training programs for targeted communities to empower them with counseling skills to counsel survivors of school related gender-based violence.

Parenting Workshops

We offer a range of world class prepared talks and workshops, as well as discussions around different parenting styles. Our educational workshops, parents attend to learn more about caring for their children.