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100km with Character with Team v Schalkwyk
- By: Jaco van Schalkwyk
- Short URL: https://archive.backabuddy.co.za/100km-with-character
- Date Created: 10 August 2021
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So, we are surely living in crazy times and the chaos around us is affecting us all in one way or another. There has never been a time where it was more important to raise a generation of boys to be good men. We are from Gauteng, Krugersdorp.
Men that will treat their families and communities better than what is currently the norm, men that will be leaders of industry and not robbers of state resources, men that will treat everyone with love and kindness – good men.
To do that we need to be proactive in our approach – we need to stop talking and start doing and this is where I need to ask for your help. Needless to say that running a nonprofit organisation in the current times has its fair set of challenges and there is not a lot of FUN in FUNdraising.
The Character Company is doing long-term MENtorship for young boys growing up with absent fathers or no positive male role models in their lives – we are currently still the only organisation that is doing long-term MENtorship for boys from as young as 5 years old. In order to continue this and spread our footprint in 2022 to reach more boys, we are hosting a unique fundraiser in October and I need you on my team.
with the funds raised, we will roll out our MENtorship program in 4 brand new regions in 2022. That is 4 new Regional Characters that will recruit 12 additional MENtors each – a total of 240 boys and their moms that will become part of the TCC family and received long-term MENtorship through your support. This is how we change what is going on in our country – one boy at a time.
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The Character Company

The Character Company is a long term mentorship programme for young boys growing up with absent fathers - raising boys to be good men. Other than the weekly and monthly programmes, holiday camps and “one-on-one” intervention we also focus on support for single mothers and raising awareness of the impact of absent fathers on our families and society.