Lesedi la Batho (LLB) (light for the people) is a Pretoria based charitable organisation which supports the people in need living in the township of Mabopane in many aspects of their life. The organisation started off as a project of Organisation SA Cares in 2004 and acts independently since 2011. Its activities comprise education (hygiene, computer skills, social behaviour etc.), job training (bakery, tailoring, nursery etc.), advice on business start up, sports promotion, psychological counselling, as well as children’s care for working mothers.
In 2014 LLB successfully released 200 participants of their training programmes into a new job or their own business. Through close co-operation with the ministry of education LLB has gained access to the 6000 students of the seven high schools in Mabopane. A great success in 2014 was the reduction of teenage pregnancy by 60% after the first year of implementation.
Here you find a link to a short movie presentation which was produced by Amai Haukamp and Alejando Garcia during the occasion of Lesedi la Bathos’s 5 Year celebration in October 2016:
https://youtu.be/PGWwT0ROasw
