The Character Company

category
Babies, Children & Youth
address
Randburg, South Africa
We help MENtor young boys growing up with absent fathers by instilling honorable values through active involvement..
More about The Character Company
The Character Company is a values-based organisation that offers a long-term activity-based mentorship programme for young boys with absent fathers or positive male role models. Other than the weekly and monthly programmes, holiday camps and “one-on-one” intervention we also focus on raising awareness. The challenge we face in our country is far bigger than the solution that we can offer so changing the mindset of people out there is a huge priority for us. The more awareness we create of the impact of absent fathers on our families and society, the more people will start paying attention and the more attention they pay, the more solutions we will have. A quote from Albert Einstein that I just love and live by says; “this world is not a dangerous place because of those people who do harm, it is dangerous because of those people that look at it and do nothing”. That is the message that we want to get out there - to everyone - men and woman - each one of us can be a Fatherhood ...
Our staff (3)

Jaco van Schalkwyk
CEO & Founder

Redmond Louw
Business Development
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Our boys learn about balance. It is very important that you are able to keep a balance in ...

Game on! The boys were prepared to fling balls and go spalt!

#TheBounceSquad.

Our boys had the opportunity of riding a horse, and from the look on their faces they ...

The Character Company's largest year end group by far.


TO guide us in our MENtorship we focus on instilling particularly 5 values - Courage, ...

A fun dad and his boys.
