by websitedesign | Mar 8, 2022 | troopers
Life happens! Sometimes we may think we are doing the right thing, but we are thinking with our hearts and not our heads. The biggest challenge when living on the streets is trying to reconnect with family. You have to first restore YOURSELF, before you can rebuild...
by websitedesign | Mar 8, 2022 | troopers
“Determination on the streets is quite important since being clean on the streets is one of the most difficult things to do,” says our fieldworker, Tasneem Hoosain-Fielies, with great pride, as she reflects on *Steve’s journey to sobriety at the age of 26. His life,...
by websitedesign | Mar 8, 2022 | troopers
Addiction, an invisible noose that some of our clients live with every day. Slacking the noose is no easy feat when your drug of choice, in a sense, enables surviving the harsh and unsafe conditions of street life. If you think adequate shelter is a challenge for a...
by websitedesign | Mar 8, 2022 | troopers
A woman who has been brutally attacked seeks assistance for safety. Severely traumatised, she is told she CANNOT access support services due to NOT meeting the GBV (Gender-Based-Violence) safety placement requirements of having an exit plan (a home to go to) after her...
by websitedesign | Mar 8, 2022 | troopers
It has been a year since South Africa went into lockdown. A year that gave birth to both hope and desolation for many on the streets, that double-edge sword of the lives that we interact with daily. We celebrated the many lives of those fighting to survive on the...
by websitedesign | Mar 8, 2022 | troopers
I once read a sticker on a car, “when days are dark, friends are few”. It stuck a cord with me, true friendship is not for the faint hearted, because some of us go through some wars where the battle scars never heal. This seemed relevant to most of the clients we work...
