Health & Life Skills

Offering programmes geared towards empowering young people with knowledge to lead healthy lifestyles.

With the commitment to nurturing healthy, resilient, and future-ready young people, Boys & Girls Clubs of South Africa offers programmes geared towards empowering young people with knowledge about leading healthy lifestyles. We have also partnered with organizations in the agricultural sector to introduce and implement hands-on gardening and nutrition programmes such as Positive Sprouts for our Club members. Through our health and life skills programmes, children learn to make healthy life and food choices, that contribute to their health and well-being.

SMART Girls is a 10-week program, run multiple times through the year, that provides young women, ages 10 through 18, with weekly workshops to educate them on leading a healthy lifestyle, loving themselves and others, and building positive relationships with peers. Our program makes it possible for young women to develop socially, succeed in school, stay physically active and prepare for their future.

Passport to Manhood is the compliment to SMART Girls for young men.  The passage from boyhood to manhood is challenging, requiring adolescent males to understand and manage many issues and transitions.  P2M addresses critical issues that young men face during this time, such as ethics, decision-making, wellness, ideas about fatherhood, employment and careers, cooperation and conflict, diversity, relationships and self-esteem.

KFC’s Add Hope initiative is a significant campaign aimed at combating hunger in South Africa and Boys & Girls Clubs of South Africa has been a beneficiary for the past eight years. In the communities we serve, food insecurity is a reality and it is a fact that many young people cannot learn on an empty stomach. Through KFC’s Add Hope partnership, BGCSA managed to serve 153,000 meals to all its beneficiaries in 2024 and the cumulative impact that the Add Hope campaign has had in our organization, has been profound and has enabled us to keep 1800 young people engaged in our programmes year on year.

Positive Sprouts: South Africa’s agriculture and food processing sectors face a growing skills gap and an urgent need to engage youth in sustainable food systems. With the commitment to nurturing healthy, resilient, and future-ready young people, BGCSA has partnered with organizations in the agricultural sector to introduce and implement hands-on gardening and nutrition programmes such as Positive Sprouts for our Club members. Through Positive Sprouts children learn to grow vegetables, make healthy food choices, and appreciate where their food comes from.