Many South Africans have been unable to access services because they do not have an identity document, which places citizens on the national database. The outreach programme, created and implemented by the Durban-based Media in Education Trust (MiET), a non-governmental organisation focusing on rural development, helps to bridge this gap by assisting school children and their families to obtain identity documents.
The Schools as Centres of Care and Support (SCCS) programme, funded mainly by the Dutch government and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, identifies and helps a district's most vulnerable children and adults via the school system. So far the programme has been implemented in the under-resourced parts of North West and KwaZulu-Natal provinces.
