Youth Development Programme: Our Goal
MensTrust Youth Programme –
Life skills, Personal Growth and Gender Sensitivity Training for Boys
Provide a Leadership Skills Development programme for 60 Grade 11 boys from three Khayelitsha Secondary Schools.
To offer courses in decision-making skills, interpersonal competence, cultural awareness, self-esteem and drug and alcohol prevention that will create and provide better family bonding, more pro-social behaviour, self-control and emotional awareness, assertiveness, co-operation and confidence in the young participants.
Why grade 11?
They have reached maturity and they will become mentors of their fellow peers when they are in grade 12 for the follow up programmes. This creates an ongoing programme that can be integrated into the school and passed on to the following grade 11 learners.
To start implementing this project in January 2008 working with grade 11 learners.