Project Origins
A current Skills Development project empowers school learners by providing them with counselling, life and community development skills to enable themto extend these services to their peers. This project trains high school attending youth aged 14-24 years of age (grades 8 to 11) to become Youth Community Builders (YCBs) equipped to initiate short and long-term community interventions. This project successfully impacts large numbers of youth who are empowered to make constructive life choices andtomake positive and real differences within their communities. This project will be very popular amongst learners. 2 Groups will be trained, totalling 8 new Youth CommunityBuilders and if we procure Funding, we want it to lapse this project into the academical year.
We’ve 8
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Project Objectives
The overarching goal of the Capacitating Youth to Build Careers to serve their Communities’ projects is to capacitate unemployed youth to provide meaningful and interactive interventions to the vulnerable learners still at school and to groom and foster the next generation of leaders.
Content is delivered by our Youth Facilitators in a fun, age appropriated and participatory manner. After talks our speakers are frequently approached by learners who wish to disclose the challenges they are faced with, and these learners are referred to appropriate services including our own psychosocial groups which provides support and facilitates healing. In the 2022 year, this programme is intending to reach 15 schools in the areas of Newclare, Coronationville, Bosmont, Noordgesig, Eldorado Park and Ennerdale.
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