Childline Gauteng is making a contribution through their services to children and families. Their 4 key projects are ideally placed to service the needs of children:

• The Childline 24-hour toll-free helpline handles approximately 180 000 calls per annum from children, parents and concerned individuals
• Supportive therapeutic services of 5000 individual and family counselling sessions and group work offered from our fulltime Childline offices in the Inner-city, Katorus, Tembisa, Sebokeng and Soweto
• The Child Rights and Responsibilities Project reaches 90 school communities, including teachers, learners and their parents. Training of professional and lay people in the identification and initial management of abused children also takes place
• Safe House Project provides 97 warm loving homes in and around Gauteng on a short-term basis to children who have been abandoned or removed from their own homes in emergency situations.  
  

  Through these projects they reach approximately 200 000 children and young people every year.

43% of kids in South Africa are abused. That’s 4 in every 10! Help Childline turn that around. Put your money where your heart is and donate R10 by Smsing “child” to 38079.

Go on pick up your phone – it will cost you less than a 2l coke, a box of cigarettes or a slab of chocolate ...

Every child's story deserves a happy ending!

Terms & Conditions: This is a promotion for Childline. R10/SMS. Premium Rates. Free/Bundled SMS’s Do Not apply. All prices include VAT. Network operator fees and administration fees will be deducted.