Our Goal : Encourage and empower
Diepsloot High School Students
Our Tools: Student Christian
Meetings
Personal Counseling
Outreach
Assemblies
Holiday Retreats and Meetings
Teachers Meetings
Physical
Aid for Schools, Equipment etc
Facilitation of Bursaries for Further Education
YouthReachSA was launched in 2009 when Simon Bennett and Phoebe Barker, started hosting Student Christian Meetings, or SCMs, at Diepsloot Combined High School.
Realizing the real impact the meetings and subsequent counselling were having in these teenagers’ lives, a team of dedicated passionate professionals has come together to consolidate and develop this valuable and exciting work throughout every single High School in Diepsloot.
From 8th Grade through to Graduation, our volunteers spend their week hosting student Christian Meetings, spending time with the teens, getting to know them, and counseling them through their many problems.
Growing up in Diepsloot presents many physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges to teenagers. Many of them lose focus and become discouraged to the point of leaving school and despairing of life itself.
We encourage the students to fight to finish their school, reach beyond their difficult circumstances and have the motivation and determination to expand their horizons and dream beyond what they can see possible.
One result of this is that a former learner at the Combined School and SCM leader, Jeoffrey Hlongo has set up a foundation Live Your Dream Africa with our help. LYDA provides Saturday afternoon activities for teenagers in Diepsloot with motivational speakers along with drama, poetry, dance and choral workshops.
At present YouthReach runs Student Christian Meetings in five Diepsloot High Schools.
Who we are:
Simon Bennett- Founder
Who we are:
Simon Bennett- Founder
Phoebe Barker- Co. Founder / Life Coach
Angelita Silva– Volunteer / Accredited Counselor
David Silva– Volunteer
John Traas- Volulunteer
Facts about Diepsloot:
Diepsloot is now home to about 150,000 people; many of them live in shacks 3 m by 2 m assembled from scrap metal, wood, plastic and cardboard. Some families lack access to basic services such as running water, sewage and rubbish removal.
Residents use paraffin stoves and coal for cooking, and candles for light. Some shacks have electricity and use a prepaid meter, but this is becoming increasingly expensive and is used sparingly. City officials estimate that half the population in the settlement is unemployed.
Diepsloot is a densely populated settlement in the north of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is made up of government-subsidized housing, brick houses built by landowners as well as shacks. These shacks are built on any piece of land with nothing already on it. Some landowners charge rent to others to stay in a shack on their land
Diepsloot is now home to about 150,000 people; many of them live in shacks 3 m by 2 m assembled from scrap metal, wood, plastic and cardboard. Some families lack access to basic services such as running water, sewage and rubbish removal.
Residents use paraffin stoves and coal for cooking, and candles for light. Some shacks have electricity and use a prepaid meter, but this is becoming increasingly expensive and is used sparingly. City officials estimate that half the population in the settlement is unemployed.
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