
Community Youth Development Program gives learners an opportunity to develop their personal abilities while serving their community. It is a two stage community youth development program with; an educational learning program and a community development project. The learning program goal is to stimulate and develop critical thought, foster awareness on social and human rights affairs in local and foreign communities, to use young people’s desire to create change in their surrounding space, by enhancing their skills not only to develop themselves, but also to transform and develop their greater community. The community project goal looks to mobilize and give a platform for the youth in these communities, to voice their concerns and address human security and socio-economic issues, by developing and implementing a community project custom made to fit the needs of their community.
The community program and project will be carried out in South African communities - rural, poor townships or informal settlement - with high violence.
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