Youth encouraged to take action
Learners have completed projects such as water saving, cyber bullying and substance abuse
THE Youth Citizens Action Programme (Y-CAP) is encouraging learners to take action in their schools and communities by identifying challenges and helping to solve them.
Y-CAP, founded by Non-Profit Organisation Empowervate, is a competition-based programme in which learners from different schools across the country participate by creating projects ‘to improve a particular problem they’ve identified in the school or their communities’.
Learners have completed projects such as water saving, cyber bullying and substance abuse.
‘Participating in the Y-CAP programme assists in creating a team of proactive learners in the school who are positive role models for other learners. ‘The added benefit is the prize money at national level for the Y-CAP team to expand their project or start a new one,’ the organisation says..
Mbuyiselo Vilakazi, a Support Team member of YCAP-Empowervate in the King Cetshwayo District, urges local schools to send in their applications for the 2018 competition.
‘Once the schools have sent in the applications, they begin their projects and then we visit the schools so they can present the projects to us. T
‘Two schools, a high school and primary school, are selected to represent the province at the national competition.
‘This year two schools from uThukela District have been chosen to represent KZN at the national competition in Durban on Thursday and Friday.
‘Not many entries from the King Cetshwayo District were received, that is why we want to encourage local schools in our district to enter for next year’s competition.
‘Entry for next year, will officially open next month (August), but we encourage schools to send in their entries as soon as possible,’ Vilakazi said.
In 2015 Dlangezwa High School placed second at the national competition for their project on the topic ‘Healthy mind in a healthy body’.
For more information contact Founder and CEO at Youth Citizens Action Programme Amanda Blankfield-Koseff on 0790808474 or email Amanda@empoervate.org
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