• Student Social Workers at Indlela

    27th Jun 2012

    This term Indlela has had the privilege of helping 2 social work students complete their honours at the schools on our INDLELA Learning for Life programme. Natalie Ogden sheds some…

  • Are you ready to adopt?

    26th Jun 2012

                                                            Seeing the smile on the face of a baby as he recognises his mother in a crowded room… That same child’s crying face as he’s scared to take his 1st…

  • CURVES: Food Drive 2012

    17th Apr 2012

    Over the past few years CURVES Durban North has proved to be a stalwart supporter of local NPO Indlela’s feeding programme, using imaginative initiatives to collect impressive stocks of non-perishable…

  • Response to Weekend Shoot-Out

    26th Mar 2012

    This morning’s article in the Mercury (link: http://www.iol.co.za/mercury/police-shoot-11-dead-1.1263376 ) makes us aware of the reality that the community of Amaoti, face each and everyday. Speaking to our youth workers, they…

  • Bright Beginnings for Back2School!

    7th Mar 2012

    The children at an Amaoti  crèche had a bright start to the school year when Integra Scores, a BBBEE verification agency, threw them a party with all the delicious treats that children…

  • Party Babies!

    21st Feb 2012

    The late Whitney Houston famously sang “I believe the children are our future” and if that is the case, given the plight of so many of South Africa’s children, we…

  • Holiday of Hope

    1st Nov 2011

    For most of us, holidays play a prominent part in our childhood memories, familiar destinations for an enjoyable meander down memory lane. But there are many children who do not…

  • Fairhavens Farewell’s

    28th Sep 2011

    Linda Davis, House Mother at Fairhavens Babies Home Saying ‘goodbye’ to people we love is always sad but when the staff and children of Indlela’s Fairhavens Babies’ Home waved farewell…

  • Winter Warmth Comes To Amaoti

    20th Sep 2011

    “As Rotaract Club of Durban we have worked closely with the Winter Warmth project run by ECR, Hub and Rotary in previous years. So when applications were due for this…

  • KPMG Counts the Costs of Charity

    20th Sep 2011

    The staff of KPMG Services were so inspired by the success of there decision to donate a portion of their 2010 year-end functions fund to Durban North-based NPO Indlela’s projects…

  • The Greatest Gift Of All

    14th Sep 2011

    Last week Sifiso Hlongwe, our Learning for Life Youth Worker, was beaten up at the local Amaoti police station by four policemen. They had asked him to move our marked…

  • ‘Unlimited’ Opportunities

    18th Aug 2011

    Indlela has launch a new creche development programme in partnership with The Unlimited Child, an organisation that focuses on early childhood development. For the past few years Indlela has been…

  • Saying YES to Environmental Friendliness

    11th Aug 2011

    This term Indlela’s Learning For Life programme has teamed up with Clover and YES by placing recycling bins at each of the schools on our programme. The bins have been…

  • Making The Calories Count

    22nd Jun 2011

    The ladies of CURVES gym have already proved themselves to be stalwart supporters of Durban North-based NPO Indlela but this year they outdid themselves with a truly impressive donation of…

  • Spreading The Easter Joy

    17th May 2011

    Spreading The Joy Of Easter Children in Amaoti experienced the joy of Easter when Indlela delivered Easter Eggs to the schools and crèches that we work into over the long…

  • Safe Havens For Students

    6th Apr 2011

    Maris Stella & St Mary’s girls united this weekend to paint and decorate two counselling huts for our Learning for Life team. Indlela’s Learning for Life Programme is a HIV…

  • New Toilets For A3

    6th Feb 2011

    This week we received the go ahead from a corporate donor to build a set of 10 new toilets for Amaoti 3 school. The school currently has 6 toilets for…

  • Faith In Action

    30th Jan 2011

    Capt Dlamini phoned me two weeks ago this Monday. He asked me to see if I could help place a young girl he knew into a Durban North school, so…

  • New Home For Abandoned Babies

    17th Nov 2010

    Exciting times lie ahead for Fairhavens babies, as they recently moved into their new house in Kensington Drive.The official opening on 8th November created the perfect opportunity to thank all…

  • New Kitchen for Amaoti 3

    2nd Nov 2010

    In February, Jonathan Erskine, a South African returning home from 20 years in the UK, did a tour of the activities of Indlela both in the Durban North & Amaoti…