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Saturday, May 14, 2011

MEET THE GOOD SAMARITAN


The Good SAMARITAN Child and Youth Care Center in NU 3


has not been given this name for nothing


It is a safe haven for abused, orphaned and HIV positive children and young adults.



When I started working with NGO's and self help initiatives in Mdantsane in 2002 one of the first people I was introduced to was Mazozo.


Or let me rather reformulate she introduced herself !!
Meet Mazozo!
Working as an independent consultant and trainer in her free time, being a single mother of now three adult children and a powerful woman, she is overseeing this institution since many years. 
It is my life, she says. There is no way you could not believe her.


The guard has changed but the institution is still there. 
But we are not allowed to take pictures of the children anymore, Mazozo says, because two employees of the Good Samaritan have conducted fundraising on their own websites for themselves with the children's pictures. 


It took seven years to finally get the funds to have the leaking roof repaired.


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