About Yoliswa

Counsellor

I was born in Dordrecht, Eastern Cape. I came to George in 2001 after completing my matric at Dordrecht High School. I am blessed with 2 children, a boy and a girl. 

I have always thought office work is my thing.  I did a course in Professional Secretary at PC Training & Business College, then a Qualification in Office practice at Boston City Campus but realized that my passion is in promoting social justice and offer support to the most vulnerable. 

In 2011 I joined Famsa after Hours support to victims of sexual assault and simultaneously worked in Victim Empowerment in a shelter for battered women and children.  At the same time I completed a course in Social Auxiliary Work in 2014. While working as a Social Auxiliary Worker in Victim Empowerment, I learnt that for promotion of social justice to be effective, it needs to be accompanied by community education, where I completed a qualification in Teaching Adult Based Education at UNISA in 2016. 

As of September 2021 I was appointed at Famsa as a Social Auxiliary Work for Victim Empowerment with main focus in conducting educational workshops around George. I am a huge fan of this project as I believe community education is a key method of empowering people as individuals to keep abreast of current laws to be able to make informed decisions in their social settings. 

My motto: There’s no limit to what you can dream, no end to what you can do, if you just believe, YOU CAN!