YOUTH  
programme

projects

Rainbow Youth Group — Paul le Grange

Lifeskills Training — Paul le Grange

Leadership Development — Paul le Grange

Youth Camps — Paul le Grange

Senegal Project — Paul le Grange

Training the Trainer — Leonora Sefoor

activities
 We hold many camps to help develop leadership and life skills amongst youth. One of the features at a Teenage Sexuality camp was a simulation exercise entitled "Youth in the Real World", where youngsters learnt what it was like to look after babies in the real world — getting up at night, illnesses, budgeting and loans. The practise of using peer facilitators is part of fostering skills and respect for themselves and each other.

In the Children's Holiday Programme, community members are trained and assisted by the youth team to run the project in Guguletu. They learn to plan and evaluate their programmes, and learn how to use games with children to encourage creativity.

The Rainbow Youth Group (RYG) is being run successfully by its own committee, which organises workshops once a month. Workshops in lifeskills are being presented at Cape College. Other activities include lectures at schools and extensive networking.

The train the trainer handbook is being adapted to qualify for credits qualification in Youth Work through the National Qualifications Framework [NQF].

aims
Through our experiential learning approach we help children and parents to take responsibility for educational activities and lifeskills programmes in their own communities. We create an environment where young people can learn, grow and share diverse backgrounds and experiences while having fun. Through networking we share skills and carry out lobbying with other youth organisations and government.

context
Most of the children in our programmes come from areas where gangsterism and drugs hold a powerful appeal because they grow up in an atmosphere of apathy, job hopelessness, poverty and sexism.

The gangs engage in criminal activities that provide unemployed youth with material and psychological rewards. We bind informal youth groups into civic and community structures. Our youth work enables young people to find a meaningful place in society — a prerequisite for establishing a peaceful society.

Children's Holiday Programme

Children's Holiday Programme

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