Our focus area is the youth in our communities. We will also give therapeutic sessions to families within the framework of substance abuse and wrong choices made by young people.
Why the youth?
- Our societies are ridden with family violence, gang violence, prostitution, abuse and poverty. The reason why so many young people are going astray is because of dysfunctional family unit’s .The absence of a father or mother, the usage of substances and the abuse thereof.
- It is found that some young people embark in drug addiction gangsterism and prostitution. They then become crime statistics of housebreaking, theft, prostitution, gang violence, robbery or murder. Where did it all go wrong for them? Within the family unit. In 1998 the government instituted Act 116 of 1998. The domestic violence act whereas violence against women and children is wrong and an offender will be punished by law .The communities are educated on their rights as citizens of South Africa but still there is a notion of cowboys and girls don’t cry.
- Within the frame work of violence the children suffer trauma and abuse and therefore are scarred and feel to blame. They are met by a society of a strayed group which will influence them in a negative way. The child wanting to belong and to be accepted will join up with this peer group because it seems like they care and understand. These children normally struggle with their behaviour, they drop out of school and is rejected by their families as well as society.
- Family units fail them, society fail them as well as the church and their government fail them. We have designed a program called New Youth Life that deal with the Identity of young men and women, their reasons for dropping out of school and the unemployment and skills development of young men and women. This is a ten module program free of charge and we see to a breakfast and a lunch to attendees.
- New Birth Community Outreach Centre will create an atmosphere of love, safety security and belonging through a sustainable strategy steered and directed by New Birth Community Outreach Centre’s Director and Coordinators Pastor Jerome Edgar Bailey and his wife Rochelle Bailey.
Objectives of the programme:
- Through Youth Development empowering the youth to grow stronger in the areas of awareness of substance abuse and other abuses. Creating a support base for school drop-outs and unemployed youths. Providing a facility for skills development (including soft skills), arts and culture (music, dancing, drama, singing, etc). HIV / Aids awareness and prevention. Job creation and aftercare facility for scholars and access to computer, printers, faxes and internet facilities for school projects.
- To create and develop warm family values in the family unit. Our focus will be on awareness of family violence, early childhood development, skills development and poverty alleviation through food clubs and soup kitchens. This will be done through small groups, seminars and awareness campaigns as well as feeding schemes.
- Creating a safe and secure environment in the form of haven life and counselling, for the hurt, frustrated, rejected and confused so that they can find love, hope, acceptance, help, encouragement and forgiveness. This will be done through secular and spiritual counselling; day to day support facilities and an early intervention halfway house aftercare facility, focussing on substance abuse.
Operates in: Blackheath, Cape Town, Western Cape
Established in: July 2005
Non-Profit Organisation Number: 073-291
Public Benefit Organisation Number:
Section 21 Company Number: 2004/030192/08
Trust Number:
Contact person: Jerome Bailey
Phone: 021 905 6014
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Email:
Website: www.charitysa.co.za/new-birth-community-outreach-centre.html
Physical address: 44 Amstelveen Street, Dennemere, Blackheath, Cape Town
Postal address: 44 Amstelveen Street, Dennemere, Blackheath, Cape Town
