RivLife Community Centre

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 Eastwood, KwaZulu-Natal

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RivLife Community Centre

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Community Development

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Rivlife Community Centre, Cinderella Park, 25 Canary Rd, Eastwood, Pietermaritzburg, 3201, South Africa

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We help Orphaned & Vulnerable children, youth and communities by providing relief through social upliftment programs.

More about RivLife Community Centre

RivLife Community Centre is a registered Non-Profit Organisation with the Department of Social Development and have been in existence since 2005. We are located in Eastwood, Pietermaritzburg and serve primarily the Ward 34 and 38 communities. These communities are plagued by unemployment, poverty, gender-based violence, crime and risky lifestyle choices. In response, RivLife has established 4 pillars (social development, physical upliftment, economic empowerment, and spiritual care) to support and empower our communities. Our programs are sustainable and created with our beneficiaries in mind, some of which include free health clinics, career expos for low-fee paying schools, food aid, teenage crisis counselling, skills develpoment and gender empowerment initiatives. Our centre is located at the heart of a very impoverished community and we are confident that the work we accomplish has not only brought about reformation of the physical environment but also to the quality of their ...

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Noelene Charles

Donor Relations Officer

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Jongikaya Mavuso

Social Worker

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Rivlife assists students at the Careers Expo.

Rivlife assists students at the Careers Expo

Community Gardens project empowers unemployed to develop skills and generate income.

Community Gardens project empowers unemployed to develop skills and generate income.

This year, RivLife created the ambitious goal of 300 care packs! Each pack contains a ...

This year, RivLife created the ambitious goal of 300 care packs! Each pack contains a sling bag, a beauty bar soap, a pack of sanitary towels as well as an anti-perspirant. In commemorating Women's Month, the beneficiaries of this drive are the grade 12 girls of our beneficairy schools. The drive is paired with an awareness campaign which focuses on promoting female health and personal care- a topic not often discussed in many communities. The beneficiaries of the 300 care packs are Sobantu High School and Eastwood Secondary School (Pietermaritzburg).

RivLife Community Centre was honoured to receive a donation to the value of R20 000.00 ...

RivLife Community Centre was honoured to receive a donation to the value of R20 000.00 from the Shoprite Group on Monday, 23rd August 2021. This is part of their #WeActForChange Fund which helps rebuild communities in KZN and Gauteng.

Our Annual Winter Blanket Drive 2021 in Tamboville, a semi-rural community in ...

Our Annual Winter Blanket Drive 2021 in Tamboville, a semi-rural community in Pietermaritzburg.

Our monthly Siyakhula Workshops endeavour to empower young girls between the ages of ...

Our monthly Siyakhula Workshops endeavour to empower young girls between the ages of 13-18 from the local community. They leave this meeting inspired as they recieve their monthly toiletry pack, donated by our network of partners. Through this initiative, young ladies can be mentored to achieve academic goals and overcome gender-based stereotypes and norms which ristricts their development.

Our annual Christmas Party sees more than 200 children from various wards enjoy a day of ...

Our annual Christmas Party sees more than 200 children from various wards enjoy a day of entertainment, delicious meals and treats as well as goodie bag of stationery or other needs. These children thoroughly enjoy themselves each year as they learn about the message of Christmas.

SALT is a school-based group which provides support, counsel , and care to teenagers at ...

SALT is a school-based group which provides support, counsel , and care to teenagers at local high-schools. This is a faith-based initiative which is run weekly at surrounding schools during their lunch breaks.

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