Nozi Magubane mentors young girls in the Girl Guides program teaching them planting and gardening skills as well as sewing and bead work to young girls. She is an innovative and inspiring leader that can bring hope to impoverished youth. She also started on Educational Volunteer Stipend, she earned the privilege of a University Bursary to further her studies. She became a coordinator of the local community garden project, she will be monitoring day to day Soybean/VTM production and marketing. She will also be working with other youth empowering projects.

After discovering that the Soybeans can be turned into Soy-flour using a coffee grinder. We bought twenty Soybean bags for Oscarberg Primary School, one of the local schools in Rorke's Drift. The school started it's own project, selling soy-flour to the local people. The Soy-flour can be cooked with the maize meal when cooking porridge in the mornings. 

We have Educational volunteers from two local Primary School which doing great work in helping to improve education from both schools. They assist teachers in classes during teaching and learning, they also go beyond that by helping in general duties at schools.

KwaZulu-Natal has an alarmingly high level of  unemployed youth, sitting nearly at 60% in most cases due to being under experienced in their field of expertise. As Helping Hands Family, we decide to land a hand and empower young people by giving them an opportunity to be practical on job skills training through teaching, construction, leadership and more. 

Nokuthula Buthelezi graduated from Shiyane High School, one of the local schools in Rorke's Drift four years ago. ​She had acquired some computer skills at Shiyane High School with the laptop computers donated by Helping Hands Family. She began donating her time to teach basic computer skills learners at Amoibe Primary School. Helping Hands Family started giving Nokuthula an Educational Stipend every month about two years ago. The Educational Volunteer Stipend (EVS) was designed by Casey Cruickshank and Nancy Orht to support volunteers in schools that are desperately understaffed. Nokuthula registered with the Benny-Rose Training Provider to begin studies toward earning a teaching Degree. In 2018 she was awarded a scholarship from Helping Hands Family to further her studies.

We support in buying food for the Care Center and for the schools every month. We buy fruit trees that they will plant in their gardens, the community members also receive those tress. When the time is right, they can harvest the fruits and they can either sell them to the people or keep them at home for themselves.

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