Aims and Objectives of Kulula Skills Centre (females - under 19)
To provide a medium term (3 to 30 months) residential programme for 60-75 young females, between the ages of 13-18, referred here from shelters and centres doing work among Girl Children on the Street, with social reintegration as the main goal.
To provide a 'third phase' to shelters and drop-in centres in order to make possible a holistic and therapeutic environment whereby all the following are taken into consideration: prevention, early intervention, shelter and care, future development and planning, skills training focused on self-employment skills, reintegration into society or with family, empowering the children to achieve their full potential as human beings - thus making possible a 'one-stop' service. Interaction is value based - based on Humility, Simplicity and Compassion.
To enable these young girls to learn life skills, personal skills, craft skills, some job skills, but most important, they must learn self-employment skills to equip them for the way ahead.
To provide a facility where the HIV+ girl-child can be integrated with other children coming from a similar background, and have the same opportunities to a worthwhile future without any discrimination.
To do educational talks with regards to HIV, drugs abuse, prostitution, runaway tendencies and crime, as means of protecting the most vulnerable of our children against making wrong decisions based on insufficient knowledge.
To provide sexual abuse support counselling to the local community.
As funding for welfare projects are less readily available, and especially funding for children that have been involved in child-prostitution, emphasis must be placed on becoming self-sufficient and self-reliant.
