Childline Gauteng

Childline Gauteng offers the following core services: • 24 Hour Help Line - a toll-free telephone service offering counselling and support services to 250000 callers, mainly children families and community members dealing with all issues including the facilitation of child protection services • Sunlight Safe House - provides a nighttime place of safety for over 120 children whose home circumstances are not conducive to their safety and wellbeing and long-term foster care for 76 children in volunteer community homes and 29 youth in the Independent Living programme • Counselling and Support Services in our Childline Community Based Centres (CCBCs) in the Inner City, Soweto, Sebokeng, Orange Farm, Katorus, Diepsloot, Tembisa and Tshwane 1 – our social workers provide 9 000 counselling and support services to 2 000 abused and traumatised children and in so doing, strengthen the child protection system. Each CCBC will host a life skills group for 20 boys to facilitate positive ...