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How You Can Help

Give time, skills or funds — every match changes a life

Where Your Money Goes

It costs SAYes R10,000 for one mentor–mentee match for one year. This includes the recruitment, screening, training, monthly workshops, support from our social worker and graduation of mentors and mentees.

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Make a donation to change a life

Become a SAYes Youth Mentor

SAYes screens, selects, trains and supports volunteer mentors who are individually matched with a young person who is living in or has recently exited from care (aged between 14 and 25). SAYes mentors meet their mentee every week for one hour over the course of the year and attend monthly two-hour workshops.

Read more about volunteering as a mentor

Become a SAYes Resource Partner

SAYes partners with private sector organisations – businesses and non-profits – committed to supporting transition-age youth. Our partners define the specific terms of their support with SAYes across five key youth transition areas.

Read more about resource partnership

Become a SAYes Drop-in Mentor

SAYes recruits experts, public figures and otherwise accomplished individuals who volunteer to provide guidance and inspiration in a one-off, one-to-one discussion session with a mentor–mentee pair interested in a particular area.

Read more about drop-in mentoring

Become a SAYes Accredited Site

SAYes trains and accredits community organisations, educational institutions, health institutions and non-profits interested in setting up and running their own youth mentoring programmes with populations other than young people in care. We offer two courses:

Components of youth mentoring

This course focuses on identifying and understanding youth populations at risk, recruitment and selection of mentors and mentees, mentorship training, matching, match support, programme operations, monitoring and evaluation.

Mentoring with the TIL programme

The Transition to Independent Living (TIL) programme is suitable for all young people facing the challenges and opportunities of independence. This course includes all of the components of youth mentoring modules as well as specific resources developed for the TIL programme (training manuals, intervention workshop material, monitoring and evaluation measures, online administrative platforms). The purpose of this course is to become a TIL accredited site.

If you are interested in learning about SAYes training and accreditation, please contact Dr. Andrew Dellis at Andrew.Dellis@sa-yes.com.

Fundraise

There are many ways to raise funds for SAYes, regardless of where you are in the world. You can hold an event at your local church, school or sports club, run a pub quiz or a games night, invite people to your home for a coffee morning, or take on a run, ride or hike and ask friends to sponsor you.

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About SAYes

SAYes was founded in 2008 to provide much-needed support for children and young people in South Africa. We provide youth leaving children’s homes at the age of 18 with guidance that enables them to develop their skills, further their education and source suitable housing, so they can participate in society as independent, responsible adults.

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Support Us With A Donation

It costs SAYes R10,000 for one mentor–mentee match for one year. This includes recruitment, screening, training, monthly workshops, support from our social worker and graduation of mentors and mentees.

Make a donation to change a life

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