The Cape Town Multi-Service Centre was established on 1 September 2004 to facilitate programmes and projects for street children, youth, and their families. The organisation is a Non Profit Organisation who is registered with Provincial Administration Western Cape Social Development as a shelter for 30 boy children age 10-18years old.
Every child must be placed at the shelter via the children court reference to the Child Care Act 74 of 1983. The Children Court will then determine the best placement for the child according to the investigation and recommendations of the social workers report
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The centre is currently staffed by a registered social worker and several development workers who work holistically with the children in need of care, their families, communities, schools and various organisations in Cape Town
This year we focused and placed great emphasis on the community as we discovered most children beg on the street for survival and return back to their community of origin at night. Other groups of street children continue to live on the street for various reasons. Our organisation therefore has begun to strongly network with PAWC Social Development Bellville to implement a community based project where services could be made available to families within the child’s community of origin. This will allow the community to participate in the healing journey of the street child, thus creating a self reliant community accepting accountabilty
This year we focused and placed great emphasis on the community as we discovered most children beg on the street for survival and return back to their community of origin at night. Other groups of street children continue to live on the street for various reasons. Our organisation therefore has begun to strongly network with PAWC Social Development Bellville to implement a community based project where services could be made available to families within the child’s community of origin. This will allow the community to participate in the healing journey of the street child, thus creating a self reliant community accepting accountabilty
Our Vision:
Our Ideal is to help each person to live to their full potential with dignity and to help them to be fully equipped with the skills required for healthy living. We strive to imbue moral values through basic education so that each individual can partake in society as a whole person and as a family
Our Mission:
To assist street children and their families to participate in their own developments in order to become self-reliant, and make services accessible, available and affordable to vulnerable families in the communities who are affected by poverty
Our Ideal is to help each person to live to their full potential with dignity and to help them to be fully equipped with the skills required for healthy living. We strive to imbue moral values through basic education so that each individual can partake in society as a whole person and as a family
Our Mission:
To assist street children and their families to participate in their own developments in order to become self-reliant, and make services accessible, available and affordable to vulnerable families in the communities who are affected by poverty