This new phase will be officially launched in April 2104. She joins internationally acclaimed dancer Paul Modjadji in unlocking the potential of vulnerable children from under-served communities and ensuring that they thrive and receive the preparation required for formal learning.
The programme helps to build resilience in children using dreaming, visualising and action-based exercises, which teach them to experience a world different to their reality and to build towards a positive future. Children are taught skills such as concentration, long-term memory skills, motor skills, self-control and imagination, using methods that incorporate various South African languages and fun, child-friendly danceable rhythms.
Collaborating with Modjadji, who has already worked with vulnerable children and youth at risk, has created synergy. Both artists believe that a greater impact can be achieved as a collective and both use music and dance as an expression of their identity.
Khulisa Social Solutions is a national NPO that addresses social vulnerabilities and root causes of poverty and crime, as a systemic problem. For close to 17 years, it has enabled more than 1.5 million vulnerable people, in some of the most hard to reach regions, to 'reinvent their lives'.
It has been involved in the early childhood development (ECD) sector for eight years and has been actively involved in supporting different ECD centres and youth clubs since 2008. Over 700 pre-school children have benefited from Khulisa's programmes. The 'Daring to Dream' movement is aimed at building capacity for grassroots community members, using internationally acclaimed best-practice programmes. Khulisa collaborates with funders and partners in creating a safer, healthier and more prosperous South Africa.
For more information, go to www.khulisa.org.za, Facebook www.facebook.com/Khulisa or Twitter @SA_khulisa.
