Since 2009 we have connected with partners throughout the Western Cape. The range includes children’s Homes, Educare Centres, Community Centres and Schools. ​Since 2020 we have focused 60% of our work in the Gugulethu and Mannenburg communities of Cape Town.

 

Our primary beneficiaries are children but to reach them we focus on the adults and youth who influence them on a daily basis. To increase our reach we equip and place Youth Play Ambassadors in situations where they can role model, train, mentor, motivate and influence shifts in the greatest network around children that we can. We collectively call all those around children that we are trying to reach: Positive Role Models.

 

We focus on places where children are at risk of trauma and toxic stress for whatever reason.​

We want to support and educate the network around them to help prevent the damaging consequences for their development and thier futures. This cannot be tackled without reaching the important people in their lives.

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This includes communities with high rates of violence, drug abuse, and gangsterism such as the three areas in Gugulethu, Mannenburg and Nyanga where we directly impact the community and build our core YPA teams. We reach other at-risk children and youth through health, education and social sector partnerships.

 

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