The Village of Hope, South
Africa continuously receives new girls rescued
off the streets. Gangs, drugs, violence and poverty plague South
Africa, particularly Cape Town where our Home of Hope is located.
Many youth are victimized by rape, forced drug-addiction and abuse.
Gangs often use young girls as drug couriers and prostitutes.
Young boys are often pimped out to sex tourists traveling to Cape
Town for that very purpose.
At SHI's Village of Hope, these victims are brought into a community
where they spend an initial 14 months or more weaning their bodies
off of drugs and undergoing intensive rehabilitation. After this
initial phase, women are given the dignified titles of “Junior
Staff,” and are entrusted with responsibilities such as
office support, serving as house mothers, teachers and bakery
workers.
The Village runs out of an old farmhouse remodeled to house up to
25 individuals. The Village also has an education center and commercial
bakery. Some students continue on with competitive education.
Others, after gaining work skills at the bakery through the WIN
program, join the workforce in Cape Town. Others like Anthea become
a powerful voice, speaking out in public schools against trafficking
and gang abuse.
Our Villages of Hope, South Africa
has built a bakery business to help fund programs and also provide
job training for the young women being restored. The dignity,
opportunity and future that this business will provide our young
women is priceless. The bakery will be supplying bread to a minimum
of 14 local schools in South Africa, also providing a great community
service.
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