Teaching Life Skills in Swayimane

Zimele has launched a new course targeted towards our SHG members, volunteers and their dependants.

The Life Skills course covers a range of topics that are inline with Zimele’s Self-Reliance programs and include:

• Conflict Resolution
• Communication Skills
• Human Nature
• Forgiveness
• Relationships
• World View
• African Renaissance
• Vision and Goal Setting
• Leadership
• Work Ethics
• Active Citizenship
• Principles of Finance
• and HIV/AIDS

Some feedback from recent participants:

Thank you Zimele. You gave me the opportunity to learn a lot about communication, about myself, and about other people. Old people used to hide things. But here at the Life Skills, we are allowed to say how we feel and think. I am happy and I am going to do things for myself in future. – Sindy Gwala

I learned a lot of new things. I need to do more baking and sewing to improve myself. I get money when I sell cakes. I live with three orphaned children and my two children. Their mother died and there is no one else to support them. I don’t have a choice. I have to do it. – Philisiwe