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• Lack of privacy for parents, who share their Shack with 2,
4, or more children or other family members. Overcrowding
in the Shacks does not augur well for the emotional and
physical wellbeing of the children because of this status
quo.
• Child abuse of parent to child, child to child, and adult to
adult in the community.
• Many of our children are very traumatized because of this.
One observes the constant bullying and fighting or taunting
of children, one to the other, because of their continuous
exposure to forms of violence in this regard.

a caring organization who came along at a divinely appointed
time, to help sustain us.
University of Johannesburg - Now that the SCE does have
suitable premises, thanks to Transnet Propertied Ltd, and
structured programs in place, we are able to serve as an
Agent for UJ’s Internship/ Learnership community based t ask
requirements for their student marks. SCE currently hosts about
50 1st year Social Work students doing their 1st year internship
through the project for their community exposure. We will shortly
be hosting many of their other volunteer students who need
community based projects to render service for their marks.
4. What are the three biggest influences in the behavior of the
society/environment where the children attending the centre
come from?

• Poverty due to unemployment, resulting in continuous
hunger and deprivation in so many ways. For instance,
some children never get to ride in a car, or very
occasionally get to go out on social excursions, because
of lack of income. Even in the project, because we do not
have sufficient funding we are unable to bridge this gap.
We do not even own any form of transport as yet, and for
the past 8 years have depended on my personal Toyota
Conquest for the projects wheels. However, when we have
been able to take children out, or needed transport, a
Service Provider would be called in. This takes a big chunk
out of the existing funding, so it is not done often. There
is a real need to offer kids more social and educational
excursions, with transport provided, to address the need of
social deprivation because of poverty that abounds. I find
children are always wanting to get out of their environment,
and want to see other things, and go places, but this rarely
happens for them. This is a bit of a heart bleed for me, as
I wish so much for them to enjoy some social outings at
times. But due to programme implementation specifically
to help with their educational needs takes priority for me, I
need to ensure that utilize the funding first and foremost for
the most urgent needs that have been identified to assist
the children; that is their educational needs. Although I do
believe that social outings and educational excursions is
part of the development.

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