Muzo Life Foundation
Muzo Life Foundation
NPC No: 2025/715657/08
Muzo Life operates an independent Non-Profit Organization dedicated to public programs. The primary focus is to support individuals who cannot afford private mental health services and to implement school-based psychosocial and mental health support programs in public schools.
DONATIONS
Donations can be made to the following bank account:
Bank name: Standard Bank
Account Holder: Muzo Life Foundation
Branch code: 051001
Account type: Current
Account No: 1018 854 3870
Kindly email us your details and proof of payment so that we can acknowledge your donation and send you a BEE certificate. Email: programs@muzo-life.com
School-based Psychosocial and Mental Health Programs
“Children today are increasingly victims of many social forces that negatively affect their role as students. The family is in a state of change and until it becomes stabilized, in whatever form, children’s unmet physical and emotional needs will continue to interfere with their ability to learn and adjust in school. Mental health is directly related to children’s learning and development. It encompasses or intersects with interpersonal relationships, social-emotional skills, behaviour, learning, academic motivation, certain disabilities, mental illness (e.g., depression or bipolar disorder), crisis prevention and response, school safety and substance abuse (Sabatino, Pricher, and Alvarez, 2012). Each of these issues affects not only the success and well-being of the individual student but also the school climate and outcomes for all students.
The Department of Education in KwaZulu-Natal province on their psycho-Social Support Service article that was compiled by Naidoo and Jeena (2014) stated that, in almost every classroom one will find learners who are experiencing barriers to learning in one form or the other. Their article was based on Psycho-Social Support Service that is being provided by School Social Workers and Psychologist. Kemp (2013) in Sittert (2016) pointed out that, In South Africa school social workers work within the framework of inclusive education, but they still have a specialist role as social worker in terms of the Social Service Professions Act, Act 110 of 1978 (Kemp, 2013)”. (cited in Mduduzi Shabalala’s 2019 proposal)
Our onsite Social Workers and Mental Health Therapists collaborate with the schools in addressing the following learners issues: Stress, family Issues, parents’ divorce, domestic violence, financial challenges, grief/Loss Issues, mental Health Issues, physical/Emotional/Educational Neglect, physical/Sexual/Emotional Abuse, early Pregnancy, school-related Concerns, absences and truancy, poor academic achievement, bullying, harassment, school dropout, misbehaving etc.
Program aims & objectives
To learners:
- Remedy academic berries that are created by socio-economic issues such as poverty, crime, and violence.
- Help learners to be able to cope with systems that are around them in school, home and society.
- Work as a link between home, school and community to learners.
- Help learners to adjust to a schooling environment.
- Support learners with social-emotional needs.
- Address issues of mental health to learners.
To the Schools:
- Improve the academic performance of learners who are victims of social force.
- Reduce the high risk of truancy and dropping out of school.
- Promotion of a school climate and culture conducive to student learning and teaching excellence.
- Improve academic Achievement.
- Reduce bullying.
- Address cases of Harassment.
- Address cases of misbehavior.
- Reduce school violence.
- Reduce academic underachievement.
- Raise substance abuse awareness.
Community:
- Promotion of collective involvement of different disciplines in fighting mental health and socio-economic issues.
- Transforming communities into a conducive environment that has less violence.
- Work as a link between home, school and community to learners.
- Conducting community awareness.