For more than 30 years MYC has provided accommodation, support, care and education for marginalized and homeless young people at risk through poverty, in Manzini, Swaziland. Father Larry McDonnell, a Salesian priest, was the leading inspiration behind this project. Today MYC operates 6 residential homes, 2 for girls and 4 for boys, sheltering 95 street children including the McCorkindale Orphanag
e for 30 boys and girls. The other 5 homes are called: Enjabulweni, Fairview, Ngwane Park, Sikhunyana and Zakhele. Manzini Youth Care provides holistic Christian care in meeting the basic needs of food, shelter, education, training and life skills to marginalized children and youth at risk through poverty. Guided by Salesian values of reasonableness and kindness, Manzini Youth Care supports young people in their spiritual and social development. In 1978 MYC was started as a community service project by the boys of the Salesian Secondary School in Manzini, in response to the growing numbers of street children in Swaziland. Children were taken off the street and housed in the disused mortuary rooms of St Teresa’s mission, with the primary intention of re-integrating them back into their family. Together with the Salesian community of Don Bosco in Manzini, Father Larry McDonnell assembled a local community committee to establish Manzini Youth Care (MYC).
