Our mission at the ACVV Khayalethu Child and Youth Care Centre is to provide intervention programmes and alternative care for street children, specifically for boys between the ages of 6 and 18, meeting their basic needs through a holistic and developmental approach with the ultimate aim of re-socialisation and family re-unification. At the Khayalethu Oliver House, however, the age group varies from 18 to 21 years of age. Here the aim is to source an adequate skills programme or apprenticeship over an extended period of time that will enable the young men to re-integrate into society in a skilled and productive way, while effectively being able to provide for themselves and hopefully for their own families.