NICRO commemorates a 111 year-long legacy in South Africa this week. As part of our 111th birthday celebration, our teams across South Africa took to their communities and spent 111 minutes in service of others in need (images attached).

“This is our way of celebrating and remembering our long history and unparalleled contributions to human rights, juvenile justice, criminal justice reform, and social crime prevention,” said Betzi Pierce, CEO of NICRO.

“In the years to come, we will continue to dedicate ourselves to equipping those we serve to embrace positive, healthy, and sustainable lifestyles as an alternative to anti-social, risky behaviour, crime, and violence.

“Over the years we have conducted research, taken heed of best practice, learned many lessons, and finetuned our approach and interventions to fight crime in the best way possible”, she added.

NICRO calls upon every South African community to stand alongside us and help lead the way to ending crime by:

• Ensuring the protection of all children and vulnerable individuals,
• Promoting and supporting healthy, functional family structures,
• Becoming involved and encouraging every friend and neighbour to watch out for other community members, help keep them safe, preventing crime and violence where possible, detecting and reporting all forms of crime and violence,
• Keeping our schools safe where our children can grow, learn and flourish in safety, and
• Standing together to take back our streets, our parks and our public spaces so that our children, young girls and women can enjoy a safe, protected environment.

We thank our communities for their steadfast belief in us. NICRO cannot change the face of crime alone but united we can only succeed.

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Enquiries:
Betzi Pierce
Chief Executive Officer at NICRO
084 810 5154

Anneke Scheepers
PR and Advocacy at NICRO
071 423 0079

About NICRO
We are a National Non-Profit employing qualified professionals who are passionate about changing lives. We aim to lead the way to end crime, building safe communities, and creating a world without crime and violence where people can thrive and prosper.

Founded in September 1910, NICRO was the first organisation in South Africa to offer services to prisoners and their families. NICRO is one of the largest longest surviving local, truly South African, NPOs.

Our services are rendered from 16 offices and 53 service points located in communities and/or at courts in the Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and the Western Cape.

NICRO introduced probation services and community services as an alternative to imprisonment, pioneered diversion, and non-custodial sentencing, and made ground-breaking contributions to South African society and the criminal justice system.