About Lathitha Development Centre
Vision
Engaging the community of Mzamomhle to improve the quality of life by providing skills training, work empowerment, and hope.
Mission
We exist to help the community of Mzamomhle and its residents prosper, through developing livelihood skills, providing physical and spiritual healing and support, promoting healthy families, and serving as a community resource.
Lathitha Development Centre is a Non Profit Organisation situated in Mzamomhle, Gonubie, East London. Mzamomhle has a population of 40 000 people, living in a relatively small geographic area. The unemployment rate among residents has been estimated at around 80%. Lathitha, was launched in 2012, with the vision of impacting this high unemployment rate. Through skills training, work readiness programs, and engaging this community physically and spiritually, Lathitha seeks to be a part of seeing transformation come to this incredible place.
Lathitha offers a wide range of programs and trainings, through with many people have been able to find employment, and become self sustaining. Ongoing programs include:
Computer training, Work For A Living, Sewing, ABET Adult Learning, food gardening, educare, and street children homeschool.
Other trainings and and programs have included:
Carpentry, building skills, shoe making, medal working, English classes, math lessons, food gardens, rabbit raising, and many more.
