Lekwa Local Municipality 2013/14 - Co-operative Governance and ...

7.8 CHILD CARE AND PROTECTION• Provision of Life Skills and Parenting Programmes to teenagers (with specific focus to 9 – 18years old) – SASSA Information indicates high number of children on CSG in somemunicipalities• Develop plans for children in foster care before they reach 18 years of age (exit plan informedby individual development plans)• Group work for foster parents and foster children• Implementation of ISIBINDI model (focus on child headed households)7.9 MORAL REGENERATIONLekwa Municipality has set aside a budget for Moral Regeneration Movement. The MRM is primarily amovement and not an organization. It does not seek to replace or duplicate any of the existing initiatives andprocesses aimed at combating moral degeneration. Its mandate is to be a networking platform for all thesevarious processes and initiatives. Therefore structures put in place to facilitate the work of MRM aim primarilyat facilitating the envisaged networks and partnerships. They also seek to promote local action andcommitment from within the various communities of the country at their various levels of existence andoperation.The ultimate objective of the moral regeneration movement is to assist in the development of a caring societythrough the revival of the spirit of Botho / Ubuntu and the actualization and realization of the values andideals enshrined in our constitution, using all available resources and harnessing all initiatives in government,business and civil society. In the words of the state president Thabo Mbeki “The MRM will address the issue ofthe responsibility that each of us should take for our lives, moving from the understanding that, as we wereour own liberators in resistance against apartheid so too should we today act as our own liberators in dealingwith its legacy”How do they operate in Lekwa Municipality?Networking forums, known as working committees, comprising provincial and local government, faith basedorganizations, non-governmental organizations, business, labour, traditional leaders, political parties havebeen established in Lekwa. These structures are charged with the responsibility of facilitating the work ofMRM within the municipality.Focus areas of the Movement’s workDevelopment of Ethical LeadershipAny process of transformation process requires able leaders to take it forward. Leaders at all levels and in allsectors of society are perceived as role models and should therefore be persons on integrity, and goodexamples, who themselves continually aspire to set the standard for ‘morality’.Moral Regeneration must aim at developing and nurturing such leadership!YouthThe youth are the ones who bear most of the brunt or moral decay. They are often perceived as the agents ofimmoral behavior or helpless victims who need some external intervention. They themselves decry the lack ofrole models and opportunities for right living.Moral Regeneration must aim at harnessing and supporting the energy and creative spirit of youth towardsmoral renewal!EducationAs the Chairperson of MRM cautions: “It little profits a nation to boast about thousands of teachers, doctors,engineers, accountants, lawyers, priests, scientists and all kinds of skilled personal personnel if these aredevoid of moral values. Did Nazi Germany or Apartheid South Africa not boast of similarly skilled citizenry? Yetit was the same professional and skilled persons that were turned into monsters that sent helpless persons to217 | P a g e