child-headed households

Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini has called on South Africans to help identify and locate child- and youth-headed households in the country, to ensure that they receive the necessary support from the government.

Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini has called on South Africans to help identify and locate child- and youth-headed households in the country, to ensure that they receive the necessary support from the government.

South Africa has some of the highest numbers of children affected by HIV/Aids in the world; faith-based non-profit Lebone Village provides a safe haven, along with counselling and schooling, to help care for these children, so they grow and prosper.

The Centre of Memory will keep alive Mandela's ideals and principles. It is a store of his history, and a space for dialogue on the present and future. The Children's Fund is investing in that future, through various programmes focused on the poor and vulnerable.
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While rightly expressing outrage at recent acts of violence in the country, South Africans should not lose sight of the fact that the overwhelming majority of their countrymen and women are "peaceful, caring, law abiding citizens", says President Jacob Zuma.

Child Protection Week, which started on Monday 28 May and was launched by President Jacob Zuma in the Northern Cape, is aimed at making all South Africans aware of their role in honouring children and the rights they should enjoy.
• Spotlight on SA's street children

South Africa plans to recruit up to 10 000 service providers over the next three years while expanding early childhood development centres as the government moves to assist child-headed households in the country.

The innovative Amalunchbox project is converting humble shipping containers into fully-fledged mobile kitchens, which help to give thousands of South African primary school pupils a hot, healthy meal every day.
• Home grown nutrition research

South African women from disadvantaged areas are using their backyards to grow crops and farm livestock in order to feed their families and the community.
• New UN body to focus on women

Despite its poverty and lack of services, its housing shortage and hunger, there is a resilience and optimism in Ivory Park that is hard to beat. Lesego Madumo reports on a township north-east of Johannesburg.