Life Skills
Financial Literacy: Using the Aflateen curriculum, participants are taught basic money management skills such as saving and budgeting. We also provide them with practical skills to start a business through income generation projects where they make and sell their products to other participants and staff members at the centre.
Healthy Living: We encourage our participants to be active through sports and clubs to help maintain healthy lifestyles. In addition, we provide Sexual Reproductive Health Education through Safe Space sessions, where boys and girls are divided into gender-specific support and coaching groups.
Goal-Setting: SSI program staff work with our youth participants to identify personal, academic and career goals, and develop effective strategies to overcome potential barriers to achieve their goals.
Social Connectedness: We work with participants to engage in community service projects and teach them the value of giving back to their communities.
Business Administration: Participants are given the opportunity to engage in various income-generating activities through SSI to help introduce them to the skills and knowledge-base needed to start and operate a business.
“My name is Patience Koitsiwe, and I enrolled in the After School program in 2017, when I was in junior secondary school. I lacked confidence, was full of negativity and got low grades at school. All this changed when I joined the SSI family, where there is so much love and care for personal growth.
I can specifically trace my transformation to a Life Skills session I attended with the topic “Be unique, because you are unique”. From that session I felt so equipped to be assertive and I began to believe in myself, started by drafting my dreams and goals privately then shared with the facilitator, who supported and guided me through the whole process.
I am proud to say that today, I am able to stand and talk to people confidently. In 2017 I won the Miss Stepping Stones International pageant and went on to be the 1st Princess at the Miss Molefi Senior School pageant. It is important to note that Life Skills session on leadership and self esteem can be linked to good leadership skills I possessed as the first female President in SSI.
I am proud of myself and it makes me believe that I can be anything in life as long as I stay focused on the prize.”
