2022

Life orientation project

Siphesihle Nkosi 10D

Boksburg High School

8/11/2022

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 Social Issues Affecting the Community
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 Community Participation
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 Bibliography/Reference list
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1.1) Poverty
1.2) Gender Based Violence and Overpopulation
1.3) Inequality, poor education, conflict, lack of infrastructure
1.4) Substandard housing, homelessness, inadequate, childcare, lack of access to health care
and unsafe neighbourhoods

1.5) -The reason social and environmental responsibility can contribute to fighting poverty is
that economic activities flourish in a stable society that is under a good environmental
climate. Environmental social responsibility considers people, planet and profit issues that
lead to sustained competitive advantage
-ubuntu is extremely important and it is most helpful to fight social challenges. Without
ubuntu a humankind wrapped with greed, anger, ego, pride, selfishness etc. If any person is
facing difficulty to interact with other people, then ubuntu is most helpful to him to fight
with this challenge
-Social activists work to promote, guide, or impede changes in government or business
policies and influence the actions of individuals and groups. They build connections among
groups and communities and disseminate information on specific issues to create awareness
and influence social change
1.6) Poverty itself as a denial or violation of human rights. This approach sees poverty as
incompatible with human dignity is the foundation for human rights, poverty is therefore a
denial of all human rights so therefore the deprivation of economic or material resources.
No social phenomenon is as comprehensive in its assault on human rights as poverty
1.7) Economic security programs such as social security, food assistance, tax credits and
housing assistance can help provide opportunity by assistance can help provide opportunity
by ameliorating short-term poverty and hardship and by doing so improving children’s long-
term outcomes

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2.1) Name: SANCA Horizon Clinic
Address: 17 North St, Plantation, Boksburg, 1459
Telephone/contact person: 011 917 5015
2.2) It helps with the escalating alcohol and other drug related problems
2.3) To develop, consolidate and sustain outcome-based addiction services South Africa,
through active partnerships with governments and other stakeholders
2.4) Established in 1956 SANCA came into existence in response to a need expressed by
communities for assistance to deal with alcohol/other drug problems in their midst
2.5) Gap in services and the refusal of addict’s attendance
2.6) SANCA is funded by the DSD, Corporate companies, national and international donors
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2.8) The SANCA week challenge, international day against Drug abuse and illicit trafficking –
26 June, Overdose Awareness Day – 31 August, FAS Day – 9 September
2.9) SANCA has made a positive impact on the community because now more people have
realised that they have a problem and that they need help
2.10) Few resources, decentralized guidance
2.11) They could focus more on how actually get people to come and ask for help
themselves and also, they could at least keep whatever is going on inside confidential and
not reveal any information

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2.11)https://www.sancanational.info/involvement
https://auroracenter.co.za/awareness-aurora-alcohol-drug-centre/
https://www.justice.gov.za/legislation/constitution/SAConstitution-web-eng-02.pdf

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