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School Holiday Programme

Purpose

The holiday programme provides children with fun, stimulating and structured activities during the school holidays. It is designed to give them constructive things to do that will support their personal development. It also aims to promote physical activity, either through a physical activity focused programme or through the inclusion of physical activity in a more general programme. The Holiday programme caters for about 300 children. All children receive a breakfast snack and warm cooked lunch meal daily.

Outcomes

  1. Build their social, interpersonal and communication skills, so they can manage and respond positively to challenges and make positive choices about their lives.

  2. Avoid high-risk, anti-social behaviour such as experimenting with drugs or being involved in crime

Youth Leadership Academy

The Youth Leadership Academy is an annual knowledge based and activity oriented leadership and good governance youth training program in Helenvale. Helenvale Centre of Hope intends to bring together the 3 different High Schools (Gelvandale HS, Hillside HS and Chapman HS) & local youth groups to deepen their leadership knowledge and foster active youth participation in good governance processes and democracy building within the community.

To complete the program each year, about 30 youth attends monthly sessions on a Saturday morning from 9am-2pm. We will have quarterly semesters. Semester 1 will focus on “Understanding Self”, Semester 2 will focus on “Understanding others”, semester 3 will focus on “leading self” and semester 4 will focus on “leading others”.

After each semester, each participant is mandated to conduct a passing-it-on (PiO) exercise, which implies doing a mini training to share what they have learnt with at least 5 youth in their school or community, only those who complete the PiO qualify for the next semester. Through the PiO component of Helenvale Centre of Hope, we hope to educate at least 600 youth about leadership and good governance. The Academy takes place at the Helenvale Resource Centre. The goal of the project is to empower youth with leadership skills to make them collaborate to change themselves and their community for better.

Annual Youth Leadership Camp

Summary

The purpose of youth leadership camp is to encourage outstanding young leaders from diverse educational programs to develop a greater purpose in life through programs of learning, social interaction, and leadership development. The camp program provides high school learners with opportunities for "learning through active involvement." The program is carefully designed to aid promising high school learners in the developing of their citizenship, scholarship, and leadership abilities and to become self-starters in their respective schools and communities. Camp participants discovers who they are, what they can do, and the role they play in helping their schools build stronger relationship with their respective communities, and to become more productive citizens.

Outcomes/ results

 

  1. Improve their leadership communication skills

  2. Motivate followers and inspire them to action

  3. Describe typical situations requiring specific leadership communication skills and assess how well you use the language of leadership in these situations

  4. Overcome stage fright and communication anxiety

  5. Handle conflict and hostile disputes

Annual Helenvale Community Star Awards

The Community Stars Awards are part of a “People Can Make a Difference campaign” which aims to recognise the voluntary work of individuals, sport stars, academic achievers, community veterans, NPO’s, businesses and young heroes residing in Helenvale, Port Elizabeth.

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