Our Services

FINDING THE GOLD IN OUR YOUTH

Take Charge Program

The Take Charge Program is focused on the development of the individual by means of interactive exercises that empowers them on their level to become the best they can be by giving them tools; in the form of knowledge and understanding pertaining to different walks of life. This program is usually presented once every second week.

Intervention Program

This program’s main goal is to help those specific youth in schools that have been affected by certain adversities they might face; this entails one on one contact where we present them with Life Coaching, once per week.

Youth Empowerment Camps

These camps ensure that vital coaching and important life skills are imparted that will benefit them for the rest of their lives. The camps take place in nature and is both fun and educational. The camp duration is usually over a 3 day period.

D.E.K.S Program

To equip and sustain powerful youth for this generation

Young Adult Gap Program

This program is the engine that keeps all other programs running. We need people to train people; this is why we give willing individuals that desire to make a change in their own lives as well as in the community an opportunity to be trained and equipped to reach those youngsters in need. The team lives together as a community and works on a volunteer basis.

Parent Workshops

Parents sometimes forget that children are a gift, especially when we are challenged by circumstances. It is therefore important to be equipped to overcome those challenges and enjoy the gift we have received.

Testimonial

Ben is a 14 year old boy with a smile that lights up the world around him. The first time I saw him he flashed me his beautiful smile, only that it didn’t reach his eyes. In his eyes I saw rebellion and manipulation instead of joy. Immediately I knew there was a part of his life that he will not share easily. As I got to know him better I realized that I made a mistake the first day I met him. It was not rebellion and manipulation I saw, but a mask of survival that covered abandonment, rejection and abuse.This is in short his story. (He does not mind sharing it, if it will help others).

Ben was four when his parents got divorced, he cannot remember how it was when his parents were married. “Grownups do stuff that children do not always understand.” After the divorce he stayed with his father because financially his mother could not support them. His father lived with his girlfriend, Jen, who abused Ben physically and emotionally. His father and Jen got involved in criminal activities which ended up in his father going to jail. Ben hooked up with wrong friends that offered him comfort through smoking marijuana. His father passed away unexpectedly shortly after being released from jail.

Ben was overwhelmed by this trauma: his circumstances and the choices his father had made,because he was very close to and reliant on his father. He moved in with his mother. Ben’s mother battled to keep her job, which meant Ben had to go to bed hungry many nights and even sometimes going to school without lunch. It was in this time that Ben resorted to bullying younger kids out of their money to stop the hunger. Soon he realized that this will also pay for his addiction which now escalated to smoking Heroin. I wanted to know from Ben why did he not ask for help. His answer was that he was scared and that they would not understand.

Is there still hope for Ben to become a success?

How would his life have been different if there was someone who intervened?

There are many children like Ben in our schools. Who need help before it is too late.

You can make a difference…

The programs at A.C.2.C are designed to equip and help children like Ben to overcome the circumstances that they may find themselves in. When you sow financially into our ministry it will enable us to become intimately involved in changing these children’s lives and to expand and reach even more children.

Dennis Dekenah

Team Leader

Youlandie Murray

Fund Raising

Morne Beukes

Counselor

Charmain Coulson