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We are Hiring – Social Worker

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  National Youth Development Outreach:   Social worker NYDO is seeking to appoint a Social worker based in Eersterust, Pretoria, Gauteng Province.   National Youth Development Outreach (NYDO) seeks to recruit a social worker (out of school youth focus) to join and contribute to our mission, thereby ensuring that the organisation has the capacity and skills to transition to the next phase of our strategy. NYDO exists since 1990 to actively build diligent, responsible, contributing youth for the future. Our social justice activities aim to address underlining causes of crime as it is essential to prioritise protecting children and youth from drugs, violence, and corruption in our societies. The deterioration of our communities that are overwhelmed by drugs, crime, and unemployment impacts the safety of children at schools, on playgrounds, and even at home.   As a social justice organisation, our mandate is to work on holistic training, education, and developmental programmes. We creativ

Diversion - A testimony

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  #Myjourney (unedited) My life hasn't been as easy as I wished it to be. I grew up thinking my parents loved my siblings more than they loved me, one of the reasons being because I was always wrong in my parent's eyes; I was always whipped for playing, eating extra chips in one day which I always asked myself why can't my parents sit down with me and talk to me like they did with other kids, but I honestly moved from whatever hurt they caused in my heart because I was a child I couldn't understand why?!! Growing up always feeling like I was the "black sheep of the family", feeling excluded from my family especially after I lost my grandmother, which I am still hurt from, I always wish she is was alive but fate decided otherwise. There was a point in time when I felt like I wasn't loved at home. I then went looking for love in the wrong places. Then I made a mistake that led me to go to NYDO, a mistake I learned from; a mistake that changed my life. I got