The Character Company
In the community, 67% percent of boys grow up without a father-figure and many mothers are forced to raise their children by their self. To be a single-mother is not surprising. Men are in jail, couples are divorced so Jaco created The Character Company to help boys without a father figure to have the opportunity to have someone to look up to. For him, the current culture of violence and abuse in South Africa is due to the fact of not-having a father or a father figure around.
In our society, men behave badly, sometimes by lack of knowledge or they did not have a father-figure themselves while growing up, so boys are left alone with the mother who can't play both roles: of a mother and father. They don't have a positive role model to look up to so they quickly fall into social ill's.
The Character Company comes into play to rescue those boys from as young as the age of: 5-10 years-old. They start with them a long term project where boys learn to become gentlemen through activities such as camping. They will learn the five values that a man must have: honesty, courage, calmness, discipline and respect in order to grow into good man.
Every five kids will have a mentor to be taught by, to follow as a role model because it takes a good man to turn a boy into a good man.
The message is that no matter how busy you as a Father are, take time to be with your boy, money or gifts does not compensate the absence of a father. Your boy needs to be educated, to have a father to look up to.
The cost of this educational process is only R250 but a mother who can't afford it will not see her boy being refused the occasion.
For more information contact:
Number: 084 777 7114
Web: thecharacter.co.za
By: Panphil Tshisumpa
In our society, men behave badly, sometimes by lack of knowledge or they did not have a father-figure themselves while growing up, so boys are left alone with the mother who can't play both roles: of a mother and father. They don't have a positive role model to look up to so they quickly fall into social ill's.
The Character Company comes into play to rescue those boys from as young as the age of: 5-10 years-old. They start with them a long term project where boys learn to become gentlemen through activities such as camping. They will learn the five values that a man must have: honesty, courage, calmness, discipline and respect in order to grow into good man.
Every five kids will have a mentor to be taught by, to follow as a role model because it takes a good man to turn a boy into a good man.
The message is that no matter how busy you as a Father are, take time to be with your boy, money or gifts does not compensate the absence of a father. Your boy needs to be educated, to have a father to look up to.
The cost of this educational process is only R250 but a mother who can't afford it will not see her boy being refused the occasion.
For more information contact:
Number: 084 777 7114
Web: thecharacter.co.za
By: Panphil Tshisumpa
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