Molo Songololo

About us

Molo Songololo is a registered non-profit organisation that promotes the rights and protection of children and youth.
We made significant contributions over 42-years to the South African child rights framework, and made positive impact on the lives of hundreds of beneficiaries annually. Molo Songololo targets children and youth from 12 to 17-years in poor rural and urban communities, their families and community members. We also work with older youth and organised them as volunteers and facilitators.

Mission
Advance the rights, care, protection and participation of children through awareness, education, training, advocacy, and the provision of support services.

Programmes:
• Child Protection and Victim Empowerment: We assist and empower children and youth who are victims of sexual abuse, sexual exploitation and trafficking in children.
• Child & Youth Empowerment: We motivate and empower children / youth on human rights and especially the rights of the child. We develop children’s life-skills, leadership skills, social awareness and promote their participation in decision-making processes.
• Awareness and Advocacy: We create awareness and advocate amongst government and civil society role-players for the rights and protection of children; and for accountability to and with children.

Activities:
• Administer Referrals, Identify, Assess & Report Cases: We conduct follow-up enquiries and assessments, and develop and administer intervention plans for child victims and their care-givers.
• Rights, Responsibilities & Life-skills Empowerment: We educate children about their rights and their responsibilities, the child legal framework, how it works and how they can use it to protect their rights and the rights of others
• Child Participation - Consult, Involve & Listen to Children: Molo Songololo promote children’s participation and embrace and child participation approach to its work and activities with children.
• Counselling & Therapeutic services for Children & Parents: We provide basic one-on-one assessment interviews and counselling for children and their care-givers. We make referrals for further intervention to social workers, physiologists, drug counsellors, sexual health nurses, etc.
• Participation & Community engagements: We facilitate children’s participation in law reform, public decision-making and community actions to promote their rights, and to prevent and combat child abuse and exploitation.
• Lobbying for the Commissioner for Children: We advocated for the establishment of a national independent autonomous monitoring instrument for children's rights through awareness, education and dialogue with government and civil society role-players.
• Re-integration and General Support: We conduct regular home-visits, school-visits, parent and family support to monitor child’s progress and re-integration into family, school and community.
• Young Men’s Forum
• Stop Child Trafficking: We produce awareness raising materials, conducted workshops, make presentation and engage government and civil society structures to prevent and combat trafficking in children.
• Therapeutic and Empowerment Interventions: We conduct group therapeutic sessions with children, including child and parents therapeutic and empowerment session and workshops.
• Young Women’s Forum
• Sexual Abuse and Sexual Exploitation

Patric Solomons ist he Director of Molo Songololo.

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.