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Parent Centre Feature
24 Jun 2025|Heartlines

Partner profile: Parent Centre

The Parent Centre is dedicated to the prevention of violence against children. Its work focuses on empowering parents and caregivers to be confident in their role, to be responsible and involved parents who can build positive, loving relationships with their children and manage their children’s behaviour effectively and without using violence.

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24 Jun 2025|Heartlines

Partner profile: Epic Youth Matters

Epic Youth Matters envisions equipped young people in South Africa overcoming challenges, seizing opportunities and making meaningful contributions to their communities.

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06 Mar 2025|Heartlines

Partner profile: Character Company

The Character Company is a long term MENtorship program for young boys growing up with absent fathers or no positive male role models in their lives, dedicated to mentoring young boys to become men of strong character.

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Sikunye
06 Mar 2025|Heartlines

Partner profile: Sikunye

Sikunye seeks to inspire, mobilise and equip the church to support parents, caregivers and families to provide nurturing care for their children in the first 1000 days of life, so that they can thrive and reach their God-given potential. 

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Inanda FM
14 Feb 2025|Inanda FM

Fathers Matter speaks to Inanda FM

Heartlines' Community Mobilisation Lead Facilitator Jeff Cele's speaks to Inanda FM about the importance of social fathers, highlighting the role they play in addressing fatherlessness in a country where over 60% of children grow up without their biological father being present in the home.

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07 Feb 2025|Heartlines

Partner profile: ReStory Foundation

The ReStory Foundation empowers the marginalized, especially orphans and vulnerable children and youth, to be courageous agents of change.

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BMPP Young Fathers
07 Feb 2025|Heartlines

Partner profile: Black Male Positivity Project

The Black Male Positivity Project started in 2022 as a way to explore critical and challenging issues within African male communities.

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25 Nov 2024|Nandi Ntini

Children need guidance, emotional connection from their dads

Many children describe a "good father" as an involved parent who also meets their basic needs and not someone who provides them with luxuries.

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23 Nov 2024|Anita Nkonki

Children's perspectives on fatherhood revealed in impactful report

This timely research delves into how children aged 10 to 16 view their fathers' roles in their lives, particularly against the backdrop of the upcoming 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence.

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23 Nov 2024|Livhuwani Maphorogo

What kids long for in a dad

Study shows that the absence of positive fathering is damaging for children. 

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22 Nov 2024|Livhuwani Maphorogo

Amplifying children's unfiltered perspectives on fatherhood

Heartlines' new research shows that while children see a father’s role as being a provider, they also long for emotional connection.

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21 Nov 2024|Livhuwani Maphorogo

Present dads key for children's future

The Fathers Matter research report focuses on children’s experiences, observations, and perspectives regarding fatherhood, gender roles and identities, masculinities, and violence. The report gives a voice to those directly affected by these issues.

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