VISION 30
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMME
Engaging , Training , and Empowering Youths With ICT & SME Skills for Community Development
The Vision 30 youth development approach aims at understanding, educating and engaging the Young people in the Community in productive activities through MICT & Mentorship Programs rather than just correcting, curing or treating them for maladaptive tendencies or anti-social behavioral tendencies. Putting into perspective the Potential and capacity of each young Person is a focal point from transformation the community. Young development and Mentorship programs have transforms the Lives of Millions of Young People across the globe.
.When young people are guided to develop mutually beneficial relations with the people and institutions of their social world, they will be on the way to a hopeful future marked by positive contributions to self, family, community, and civil society.
We envisage the possibilities of transforming the mind-set of the Young people by guiding them to develop and sustain intentional efforts aim at providing provide opportunities for them to en-hance their interests, personality, values, potentials, possibilities, skills, and abilities.
The Guiding principle of this program is based on the concept that young people have strengths and abilities unique to their developmental stage and when properly directed will produce exponential developmental trends and results in the community that will tackle youth related anti-social problems like crime, violence and unemployment. The programs will promote physical dignity and emotionally safety to the young people in the Community. It will give them a sense of belonging and ownership of opportunities around them in today’s South Africa. It will foster their self-worth, allow them to discover their true 'self' (identity, interests, and strengths), foster high quality and supportive relations with their peers and adults alike. It will help youth recognize conflicting values and develop their own, foster the development of new skills, have fun, and have hope for the future. In conclusion this project will employ PYD principles will promote the following features in the lives of the delegates.
KEY OPPORTUNITIES:
Engaging, Training ,Empowering Young People Is the Key To Transformation
- The advantage of the interest of young people in MICT and Multimedia technologies in expressing themselves in a modern South Africa
- Capitalize on young people’s high access to social media platforms and scale up evidence-informed combination prevention efforts utilizing social media platform to increase reach of out of school youth who are increasingly vulnerable to new infections.
- The implementation of the Integrated School Health Programme (ISHP) has created a collaborative platform between the education and health sectors to increase provision of accessible youth friendly health services directly and through linkages to appropriate community services.
- The Identification and Emergence of various skill development programs that are gradually occupying the time of young people and redirecting their energy to more useful activates
- The Increase interest in Entrepreneurship and business among young South Africans who are unemployed.
THE CRITICAL NEED
Engaging, Training ,Empowering Young People Is the Key To Transformation
South Africa's population is largely made up of young people; those who are below the age of 35 years constitute about 66% per cent of the total population. With over 54 million South Africans, 18.5 per cent are between the ages 10-19; and 24 per cent are aged 15-24 (StatSA, Mid-year population estimate).South Africa's National Youth Policy (2009-2014) defines youth as persons from 15-34 years old. The policy is geared towards prioritizing the needs of young people with respect to education, health and well-being, economic participation and social cohesion. As a big part of the population, young people are at the heart of the future of South Africa. While South Africa’s history was driven by young people who stood up for equal opportunities, today the reverse is simply the case the young people are now driving the country in a negative direction through violent crimes , murder, drugs, alcoholism, rape, arson, theft, restiveness, unwanted pregnancies, abortions, school dropout, gangsters, xenophobia, unnecessary agitations, intolerance and political propaganda in diverse forms.
The level of moral decadence, youth restiveness, political polarization, crime, ,drug abuse ,murders, rape, teenage pregnancies, HIV/AIDS, unemployment, family breakdown, gangsters, poverty, have been on the increase.
These forces of destruction have gradually emerge in all areas of south African society breeding all sorts of crime, violence, wickedness, aggressions, protest, intolerance and instability. Now at the fore front of these negative trends are young people of South Africa who gripped by unemployment, alcoholism, poverty, drugs, family breakdown, idleness, dependency mentality, identity crisis, HIV/AIDs, and unnecessary political agitations dangerous indices that are gradually dimming the light of south Africa.
'' The critical need to fractalize the positive pathways or avenues for young people to discovery their true identity and potentials in South Africa. Most young people jump from high schools in High uncertainties in South Africa.''
South Africa is a country with a crippling crime rate and in which almost half the population is under25. The issue and the arguments about it are not new – as indicated below, analysts have been discussing this for the past 20 years. youth crime, indeed, crime in South Africa, is a function of the development and replication, over the past 30 years of a “culture of violence“, a “normalisation of crime and violence” amongst an “underclass” of negatively socialized and socially excluded youth who constitute a significant proportion of South Africa’s population. Surveys show that young people experience assault at roughly 8 times the adult rate; theft at five times and robbery at four times the adult rate. Given South Africa’s demographics – half of the population of some 54 -million is under 25.
A significant number of South Africans, and particularly young South Africans, victimization, crime and violence is a very common experience and there are very few safe spaces. This can only have a marked impact on how the country’s youth are socialised and develop their identities. Most young people in the country are consistently exposed to crime and violence in the key institutions of their socialisation such as their homes, schools and immediate social environments .
A significant proportion of South Africa’s youth has learned and internalized this behavior and so replicates it with free will. Indeed, there is research that indicates that crime, and often violent crime, is a primary means for many young South Africans to connect and bond with society, to acquire “respect”, “status”, sexual partners and to demonstrate “achievement” amongst their peers and in their communities.
IMPACT OF VISION 30
Engaging, Training ,Empowering Young People Is the Key To Transformation
Our most strategic Vision for the Vision 30 Project is to instil, develop, and harness the right sense of identity, dignity, responsibility, values and abilities in young people in South Africa through , Media, Multimedia, Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Mentorship empowerment.
- The Vision 30 project will renew the mind set of young people in South Africa and encourage them to develop responsible values and responses towards their fellow citizens, vulnerable groups in the society and appreciate the investment that has being made in their lives; developing a grateful and resourceful mindset is key impact that will make in the lives of the participants.
- The Vision 30 strategy has been designed to encompass all facets of youth development such; personal development and responsibility, Family Values and responsibility, skill acquisition, leadership, entrepreneurship, empowerment, crime prevention and moral regeneration, community development, social responsibility and nation building. All developmental care are based on a youth-centered approach.
- Develop a solid and advance MICT, Media, and Multimedia skills base that will reshape the mind-set, outlook, perception, identity of these young people and re-harnessed their energy and time for creative, positive, economical lucrative activities that will change their prospects in life.
- Inclusive in Vision 30 Project is comprehensive Social Media Training Program that will equip the participants to become social media consultant. The interest of young people on social media is great and we will use this to revolutionize their world with positive ideas and opportunities.
- Raise leaders, mentors, entrepreneurs among young people from disadvantage communities and families in South Africa.
