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After 40 years of service In South Africa, LifeLine still has the energy and commitment to serve the people of South Africa and those elsewhere in the SADC region, says LifeLine chief executive Alfred Nkosi.
Speaking at a cocktail function hosted by Cape Town Mayor Helen Zille to celebrate the organisation’s anniversary, Nkosi said there were many people in the country who were hurting, and when people are hurting, they hurt other people and they hurt themselves. Therefore, the organisation needed to remain sustainable so that it could continue to provide the necessary support to the 1.6 million people who annually used its services.
After 40 years of service, LifeLine was redefining and transforming itself into a more relevant and expert community-based emotional wellness facilitator, the organisation said. This transformation process would ensure that the organisation’s present service model was expanded to incorporate both proactive and reactive work, and also that its services were extended to other SADC countries.
Zille said she hoped that by next year, Zimbabwe would welcome LifeLine into the country She said open societies gave space to organisations like LifeLine, but closed societies had space for only the powerful few. “I hope one of the first things LifeLine does in the New Year is to establish (a branch) in Zimbabwe,” Zille said.
The organisation says its aim is to bring fundamental changes to communities, by empowering them to make their own decisions in dealing with deep-seated social challenges “in the community, with the community and for the community”.
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