Services

ICOWA Rehabilitation: ICOWA National Prison Ministry

Description of the aims and activities:

  • Explain how spiritual core functions within the framework of corrections
  • Show an understanding of the correctional environment
  • Reflect on being a spiritual worker in correctional context
  • Do spiritual assessment of inmates in correctional centre
  • Facilitate group work in correctional setting
  • Facilitate group work in correctional setting
  • Render pastoral care and do counseling with inmates
  • Preach in correctional environment
  • Facilitate victim offender mediation
  • Facilitate social re-integration of offenders

Reasons and considerations that have led to this Rehabilitation/Integration Project:
In a bid to reduce crime ICOWA is more than convince that if the society plays its rightful role of welcome and giving ex-convicts a platform, their lives will change positively and they will cease to be a risk to the society. There are a number of positives that can be exploited by integrating them into the main stream economy. Not only will they provide food on the table for their families but to a very large extent the crime rate will drop as well boasting the GDP of the country.
Providing a second change and a platform for rehabilitation and growth is a key to reducing crime levels. More often than not some people are forced into criminality by situation. With proper guidance and mentoring, many of them would not want to go to prison again.

Nyaope Campaign
  • Promoting sustained dialogue among young people enlightening them about the risks of drug intake.
  • Local, provincial and national workshops and seminars – providing civic education on the effects of taking NYAOPE.
  • Promoting active youth participation through dialogue, petitions and initiatives.
  • Focus group discussions.

School Outreach

The main objective is to achieve:
a) A motivated and well informed young person who realizes and cherish the importance of staying in schooling bearing in mind that the gate way to success is through education.
b) A young person who shun drugs and other illegal substances that corrupts behavior.
c) Active and institutionalized participation of and dialogue with youth groups to develop the communities they work and live in.

Activities:

  • Discussion forums – “My role in building a just society as a young person”
  • Focus Group discussions
  • Role playing activities
  • Drama sessions
  • School road show
  • Mentor me program
South African Girls in Action

SAGA  is a project that aims to develop disadvantaged young girls in order to lead independent lives from young age; through motivation. Through our motivations, we encourage young girls from primary school level to tertiary level to continue with their studies and to prevent early pregnancy. SAGA also encourages young women who have acquired their academic credentials to start businesses and also to be keen in taking leadership positions. This project is led by other young girls.

 

Youth Empowerment

Initiatives to inspire innovation and creativity

Encourage a business set-skills for productiveness

  • Entrepreneurship, presentation skills

Moral regeneration in terms of spiritual introspection; Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Gentleness, Self-control, Forgiving, Humility and Fairness

  • Courage, Friendship, Compassion
  • Honesty, Truth, Purity, wisdom
  • Dependable but independent (Col 1:10)
  • Gratitude, Responsibility, Contentment , Generosity
  • Availability, Attentiveness
  • Self-realization
  • Pre-Marital Counselling
  • Building trust in relationship
  • Social activities: Couple Seminars & Single Parents Imbizo’s

Our aim is that there might be a well developed marriage system that goes beyond solemnization of marriages. A marriage system that focuses on how to maintain healthy relationships & healthy homes, thus producing stable families. This marriage system will engage Marriage Officers*(MO) who will be the coordinators of this concept, who will over & above being acquainted with Marriage Act will have to be provided with extra services such as Marriage counseling, Family Therapy etc.

*MO trained in Accordance with the Marriage Act 25 of 1961 and registered with Home Affairs.

We have recently started an initiative called African Miners in Action (AMA). Our vision and main aim for AMA is to help miners with relevant information relating to:

  • Life coaching
  • Pastoral care
  • Counselling
  • Health awareness
This project is aimed at all sport activities for the young people.
Keeping young people busy with sporting activities whilst assisting them in developing personal skills that can be utilized in the society. This is aimed at eliminating crime in our locations, in the end there will be less people who are idling around street corners doing nothing.
Fly with Eagles Business Workshops
Its a project that aims at uplifting disadvantaged young, unemployed people who want to start small businesses. This project also aims at encouraging & mentoring young people who are struggling to find jobs because of criminal records or because of lack of qualifications. Encouraging young people not to resort to criminal activities but to start small business such as car wash, “tshisanyama’s“, saloon etc.
In many instances poverty is direct cause leading to acts of crime.
ICOWA Hospital Care
It main aim is to motivate young people who are in rehabs & hospitalized due to different reasons to pursue purposeful lives & be encouraged to start all over again, with the emphasis that in life there is always a second chance.
Unity for Africa (Stop Xenophobia)
It aims at encouraging unity between South Africans & different nationals who find themselves having to share one bread (the anticipated economic growth) with South Africans, thus bringing about discords. ICOWA envisions a united South Africa, with initiatives that will help assist the process of inspiring communities to work together with foreign nationals who are making honest incomes through serving our local communities in small businesses.