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Website of the Month: Khulisa

Khulisa is a non-governmental organization providing community development programmes and reintegration and rehabilitation programmes for at-risk youth and young offenders. Restorative justice philosophy underpins the organization's work to rebuild relationships between the offenders, their families and the community. Their website introduces visitors to the organization and its different programmes.

http://www.khulisaservices.co.za/index.htm

Introduction provides a description of the organization, its history, and programmes.

Programmes provides a description of the programme development process, the philosophy behind that development, and the characteristics essential to all Khulisa programmes. The programmes include:

MIB (Make it Better) trains young leaders to be contributing members to their communities
New Directions supports incarcerated youth and their parents. The programme focuses on eight areas for support: life skills, emotional intelligence development, community service, mentorship, recreation activities, parental development, post programme support, and restorative justice.
Discovery is an in-prison programme helping offenders to gain a self-awareness and become more responsible for their behavior.
Destinations connects participants in Khulisa’s in prison programmes with opportunities for employment after release.

The Khulisa Quest-UK describes a visit of young offenders from Khulisa programmes to London to share experiences in the rehabilitation and reintegration programmes.

Press is a list of links to news articles about Khulisa and its staff.

Independent Evaluations presents several research studies on Khulisa programmes.

The home page opens to a video highlighting the organizations goals.

September 2004