Hope is not automatic, a luxury, a nice-to-have, or an earned privilege - but a necessity, a requirement for life, without which even death is not a merciful option. We provide hope to destitute girls on the streets.
Aims and Objectives of Intombi Shelter [ Intombi Shelter (females - under 19)]
- Providing a temporary medium-term therapeutic residential care centre for female children under the age of 19.
- Providing a 30 bed, short to medium term facility, allowing for 30 children in beds at any given time.
- Prevention and early intervention into the lives of children lured to, and trapped in a life of child-prostitution and drug addiction.
- Interaction is value based - based on Humility, Simplicity and Compassion.
- Providing legal, social, therapeutic and other resources necessary to facilitate reintegration to normative life.
- Providing for basic physical, emotional and social needs - providing first aid, basic meals, wash facilities, laundry facilities.
- Enhancing their quality of life, in line with the harm reduction principle, without making life in the street so bearable that motivation to rehabilitate is lost.
- Working towards reintegration with society, assisting with legal, social, therapeutic and other resources.
- Equipping the children with the necessary life, social and personal skills to make their chances of success in further phases more likely.
- Providing a first base to adapt to, and attain to certain standards, before referral to following phases.
- To endeavour for the children to be readied for a further phase of development, whatever that may be (Kulula Life Skills Centre, Theosis Skills Centre, drug rehabilitation, reorientation, therapeutic accommodation, welfare placement, shelter placement, reintegration with family, etc.).
- To recruit, train and employ volunteer workers to facilitate the various aspects of Intombi Shelter.
- To employ appropriately trained staff to manage the facility.
- To provide trained adult supervision at all times.