UPDATE: Youth Programme - Nyanga Township

Every Saturday I am meeting with our team and assiting facilitation of the Youth Workshop (3yrs-17yrs) and every second Friday I attend our weekly Circle of Sharing for the adult members of the community (from 18yrs upwards). There are different aspects that we focus on in the youth programme.

  • SUSTAINABILITY: this is KEY in any community building project. 'Whatever you bring to the community must be able to stay in and be nurtured by the community!' This we do through the education of Community Builders and Responsibility Coaches within the Nyanga Township. They become equipped in implementing CIRCLES OF CHANGE and facilitate THE RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUAL

  • COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION: this is one of our key objectives - to reach more people within the community and inspire them to actively participate. How do we do this? In our last session we spoke about how it only takes ONE responsible individual within each household to inspire change in the family. By reaching the young generation of the community we aim to achieve this. Let the children teach their parents! We can not force change! But we can inspire change and responsible living through our own living examples. With our attention on YOUTH in the Nyanga Township we are day by day establishing a platform that will change a whole community.

  • IT STARTS WITH 'ME' FOR A BETTER 'WE: Our Youth Community Builders and Responsibility Coach Students are using their personal process as inspiration to guide the children of the community. What we learn and process in Friday Sessions we take with us into the Saturday Youth Workshop. Last month we focused on MY TUNE in relation to Human Rights Day. This month we focus on the theme Freedom' and will showcase at our monthly event (April 30th). Each week we deepen ourselves in what this means. We look at the 'Roles we play' and if we make use of any 'Masks' (hideouts). The kids/youth are creating masks in the workshops and drama's will be created around 'using masks/playing roles' and what it means to LET GO of them to truly be FREE, to live from your heart and be the REAL YOU.

  • CRIME PREVENTION/MANAGEMENT: We know that change is possible! This is why we invest in those who lead change and inspire responsible living by their own living example. Crime is one of the BIG challenges of our society. There is no one better to address this than those who have been there and who chose differently. Our Re-Integration Team works hand in hand with our Youth Community Builder Team - for a safer and healthier South Africa.
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