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Usizo Makhathini Community Services

 Project:  Training community members to take responsibility for
​their own communities and destiny

The Makhathini community is located on the border of South Africa and Mozambique.  It is very rural and isolated with little economic development happening.

The main focus of this project is on training of community members to take responsibility for their own communities. Youth leaders in the area are empowered to be role models to the younger youth. Volunteers are assisted to visit the sick and help with basic primary health care. Women are helped to produce better food in their own community gardens. Unemployed people are assisted to care for pre-school children, helping to make them school ready.

Although  Usizo Makhatini is a church based diaconal service, it serves the whole community of Makhathini, not discriminating against religion, race, gender or age.  Special attention is given to the vulnerable, including the youth, women and the sick. The following focus areas exist in this ministry:
  • Youth life skill training, with focus on wise decisions regarding sexual health and substance abuse.
  • Home Based Care of people cared for by family members.
  • Community gardens in partnership with ACAT (www.acatkzn.co.za).
  • Crèches running early childhood development programs.

Usizo Makhathini Community Services is a project of the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA) in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). The project is managed by the local Makhathini URCSA church council but supervised and mentored by the provincial structure of Usizo. 

Project partners

Our partners include:
​CMD Usizo Aids Trust  |   ACAT   |   Kommissie van Getuienisaksie 

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  • Home
  • About
    • Meet the team
    • Our partners
  • Projects
    • Crime prevention and social services
    • Umazisize Rural Women Empowerment
    • Youth life coaching
  • Stories
  • Donate
  • Media Centre
  • Contact