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LifeLine/Childline Western Cape is thrilled to
be part of an exciting pilot project, known as
the Positive Futures Cricket Project. Under the
auspices of a partnership between the UK and SA
governments, and with funding from UK Sport, the
British Consulate General, cricket support, expertise
and training from the Western Province Cricket
Club and Positive Futures (UK), we offer life-skills
training and messages to youth at risk, while
students from the Exercise Training Academy in
Cape Town, offer the same youth training in cricket.
Here’s some background of the project, which is
being piloted at the Forest Heights High School
in Eerste River, and will be officially launched
there in mid-September.
To use cricket as a means of building trust with
children from marginalized communities and combining
fun activities with essential life skills training
and messages, which will contribute to reduced
drug use, crime and gang activity in the community.
- instil community values and teach life skills
to schoolchildren from disadvantaged backgrounds,
primarily children at risk
- use sport as a way to draw children into
community building activity
- use accessible means to communicate with
youths and communicate the dangers and consequences
of drugs, crime, anti-social and risky sexual
behaviour
- promote trust between participants and the
police and other community figures and institutions
- promote healthy interests, self-worth and
longer term ambition to succeed
- expose participants to high-profile sporting
events and figures which will provide positive
life aims and role models;
- empowerment of young men and women to realize
their full potential and positively affect the
community
- realization of impact of anti-social/criminal
behaviour on family and the community, and the
importance of building positive futures
- co-operation between UK and SA governments,
interacting with local partners to positively
affect local communities in South Africa.
Forest Heights/cricket is a pilot project which
could be replicated in other communities, using
a variety of sports and partners from local civil
society, sports clubs or groups and business.
Participants are a mix of self-selecting learners
from Forest Heights High School and learners referred
to the programme by the school for disciplinary
reasons, resulting from drug use, anti-social
behaviour or persistent truantism.
The project was conceived by UK Sport/the British
Consulate General Cape Town, born out of the UK/South
Africa memorandum of understanding on sport.
UK Sport and the Consulate General have contributed
to the funding of this
pilot project.
Lifeline/Childline Western Cape has many years
of experience in youth development work, implementing
community projects and oversees the implementation
of this project.
Western Province Cricket Club has contributed
considerable resources and cricket equipment and
expertise to the project, including by training
the cricket coaches.
Forest Heights High School agreed to host the
pilot project and have enthusiastically embraced
its aims and encouraged its pupils to participate
in it.
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| LifeLine/Childline
Western Cape was established in Cape Town in 1968
and has, since then, been providing ongoing telephone
counselling, offering immediacy and an intimate
means of communication to those needing to talk.
The need for an organisation committed to the prevention
of child abuse became increasingly apparent and
in 1995 Childline became a division of LifeLine
Western Cape. On average, the crisis lines receive
around 4,500 calls per month.
With offices in Cape Town, Wynberg, Khayelitsha,
Guguletu, Bishop Lavis, Mitchell’s Plain and now
in Athlone, LifeLine/Childline Western Cape has
grown considerably and now employs 113 members
of staff. The majority of the organisation's staff
members work in the area of HIV/AIDS counselling
in the clinics and day hospitals around the greater
Cape Town area.
Cape Town office:
021 461 1113
Bishop Lavis office:
021 934 3027
Guguletu office: 021 633 6191
Khayelitsha office:
021 361 9197
Mitchell’s Plain office: 021 372 5591
Wynberg (Childline) office:
021 762 8198
Athlone (youth development)
office: 021 638 0913
If you need to talk, for whatever reason, we’re
here. Call 021 461 1111 or 0861 322 322 (LifeLine)
or 021 461 1114 or 08000 55 555 (Childline) at
any time of day or night, for anonymous, confidential
counselling.
LifeLine/Childline Western Cape
56 Roeland Street, Cape Town 8001
Tel: +27 21 461 1113
Fax: +27 21 461 6400
Email: info@lifelinewc.org.za
Website: www.lifelinewc.org.za
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