Indlela Learning for Life programme empowers disadvantaged school children
to make wise life choices, instilling a sense of self-worth and purpose based on Christian values, and offering them hope for their future.

Our objectives

To empower learners with the knowledge that they are unique, special and of value to themselves and others.
To develop within the individual the realisation of their destiny.
To help learners develop personal vision to enable them to plan for a future without HIV/AIDS
To empower youth with effective relationship strategies
To improve the schools’ physical environment.

Based on the successful HIV/AIDS prevention programme developed by Ithemba Lethu in Cato Manor, Durban, Indlela’s Learning for Life programme was launched in 2005 with a group of 53 Grade 4 learners at the Amaoti 3 Combined School. The Learning for Life team continued working with these learners as they progressed through to grade 7, monitoring their development, and noting a significant decrease in risk-taking behaviour. The fruits of this programme became evident in 2009 when these learners, then in Grade 8, set a new standard at the school by ending the year with no learner pregnancies.

By 2010 the programme had expanded to incorporate six youth workers working into four schools in the Amaoti and North Durban communities under the supervision of project leaders and qualified social workers Toni Wilkins and Leigh-Anne Stevens.
All these youth workers grew up in the Amaoti community and are role models for the next generation.