Makeba Centre for Girls Midrand

Makeba Centre for Girls - Midrand The Makeba Centre for Girls located in President Park , Midrand , was founded by Dr. Miriam Makeba to provide a home for destitute and/or abused girls between the ages 11-18 years. The Centre was established to cater for the needs of the girls by providing a home environment, professional counseling and support, practical vocational training and life skills development services to enable the girls to become self-sufficient and to prepare them for re-integration into society. The Makeba Centre for Girls is committed to providing emotional, educational, moral and spiritual support facilities, which are augmented by enhancing the young women’s practical and life skills; thereby, gradually enabling them to re-integrate into society where they will consequently begin to experience full, meaningful and sustainable lives. The Makeba Centre for Girls is geared at providing a personalized, yet focused care environment and employment to a broad range of professional and functional service providers to create a suitable environment for self-improvement for the young girls. At the same time, the girls are placed in primary and high school to continue their educational advancement. The objective is to ensure that the young girls have access to opportunities, which will restore their sense of human dignity, self-respect, discipline and provide them with a positive sense of community, purpose and a sense of hope for an economically and socially sustainable future.