GROWing jobs and futures

by MES - Mould, Empower, Serve

Hillbrow, Johannesburg

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R 100,399

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R 150,000

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GROW, an acronym for God Restores Our World, is a job-and-life rehabilitation project that creates shift opportunities for homeless and unemployed community members to earn cash for work done whilst being part of a coaching and developmental programme.

The funding raised will be used for the development of a recycling/ gardening project. In particular, the amount will cover stipends, equipment, uniforms and cleaning materials for a period of six months.

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About this project

Services offered by MES

MES serves the community through a range of programmes that address the needs of the community through a process of prevention, intake and assessment, intervention and sustainable exit throughout all its programmes.

MES implements its services through three core service units namely:

1. Poverty Alleviation, Spiritual & Community Enrichment
a. Spiritual Enrichment: Pastors providing counsel to those in need in shelters and out on the streets.
b. Social Relief and Community Outreaches: soup kitchen and outreaches to the street community.
c. Residential Care: providing accommodation to those clients that are participating in MES programmes for the duration of their intervention.

2. Skills Training and Enterprise Development
a. Job Rehab: an opportunity for anyone, but particularly, un-employable and desperate persons, to participate in a job- and life-rehabilitation programme, earning cash in hand for honest hard work.
b. Skills training: empowering individuals between the age of 18 and 35 with soft- and vocational skills in order for them to find work and earn an income.
c. Enterprise Development: employing trained clients into various jobs and creating job opportunities.
d. Early Childhood Development centers.

3.Professional Social Work and Health services.
a. Family preservation services including foster care placements, statutory case loads and professional counselling.
b. Drug and substance abuse programmes
c. Individual Development plan development and monitoring.
d. Other social services such as family reunification and rehabilitation.
e. Primary Health Care and Education
f. Hospice and inpatient care services

Over the past year MES has made a holistic impact to the inner-city community, and these are the numbers reached:

Number of meals distributed: 332 522
Through the school feeding programme, 1133 children received monthly support and 130 families with children
received food parcels monthly.
A total 366 children from the three crèches were provided with a safe, supportive learning environment, nurturing them
to become school ready.
91 graduated from Grade R and were successfully integrated into the formal school system.
284 children attended weekly After School Programme where they learnt to be courageous and resilient, nurturing a
spirit of belonging, mastery, independence and generosity.
156 children from Soweto and Hillbrow received School vouchers and stationery packs
Number of Child Protection services rendered: 7270
373 clients were trained in life skills and Free to GROW and 181 in computer training whilst 73 were trained in security.
The training centre was able to place 51 clients in permanent employment and 38 in temporary employment.