Motivation to host careers and life skill workshop
at the Olievenhoutbosch Secondary schools (3).
February 2013
There are three Secondary Schools in Olievenhoutbosch with an ever
increasing need for
educational opportunities. Approximately 90 000 of the 180 000
residents in
Olievenhoutbosch Ext 13 – Ext 37, is children of school going age. The Trust Hope Faith
foundation hopes to bring a variety of opportunities to the community,
empowering them to
lead more independent lives in
providing for their own needs.
Trust Hope Faith is an integral
part of the Olievenhoutbosch community and specifically
work with the secondary learners
of the three local Secondary Schools. We host after-school
programs, camps, leadership
development and mentorship which is made possible by
private funding.
July 2012 Themba Maluleka won
the SA Young Community Shapers of the year saying
“The poorest man in the world is not the one without money, but the
one living life without a dream”.
Extending the opportunities that Trust
Hope Faith brings to Olievenhoutbosch we will be hosting a Career and Life Skills Workshop in April 2013. The workshop aimes at the grade 10 to 12
pupils to help plan future careers and familiarize themselves with careers and
facilities available.
“The issue here is that there are too
many young people that are produced by the education system who are not ready
to face the realities of the world. First, these figures are suggesting that
about 50% of the children who enter grade 1 will not reach grade 12. This is a
very high drop-out rate. Effectively over 500,000 young people are added to the
economically active population who will eventually be defined as “unemployed”.”
- Bongani Magongo’s Knowledge
Brief from www.nyda.org.za
The
assistance of NYDA is crucial in hosting a workshop that will motivate learners
to excel at school in order to open the doors for tertiary studies. This in
turn will make them more employable and open doors otherwise out of their
reach. Trust Hope Faith wants to showcase careers and
training courses in numerous industries
including building & trade, beauty, tourism, safety & security as well
as manufacturing to name but a few.
As
Bongani Magongo state further in his knowledge brief : “Our skills development interventions must start to focus on hard
artisan skills to support service delivery at local government level. The
practice of spending millions on soft skills such as “life skills” must shift
towards funding programs that will produce artisans that can fix roads,
buildings, water supply systems, electrical faults, sewage systems etc. Unless
this starts to happen within NYDA projects, no government department will start
to shift their own current focus and approach.”
We would
also like to address life skill issues like how to compile a CV, how to obtain
your ID document, the importance of a bank account etc., in the workshop.
None of the
schools have a school hall, and the hall of the community center’s is not very
large. We envision an open day on the sport grounds where companies and
tertiary educational institutions can come and showcase their opportunities,
bursaries and courses.
