No one deserves to be written off. Helene Smit swears by this belief.
While some may dismiss children on the street, Smit realised that those in her hometown of Prince Albert had nowhere else to turn to.
For these reasons, they’d dropped out of the school system and had little chance of returning. Until Smit stepped in.In 2017, she began the Prince Albert Skills School with 13 boys from the street. Here, students are taught welding, gardening, cooking, woodwork, building, and plumbing among others. “We aim to develop their skills by supporting them psychologically and teaching them technical skills,” Smit says. But there are no quick fixes when trying to make a lasting difference.“This can be an emotional process because we’re working with people who’ve been traumatised and hurt,” she says. “It takes time to get that trauma out of their system.”
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