1 / 14

Empowering Disadvantaged Youth through Educational Programs

Empowering Disadvantaged Youth through Educational Programs. Veronika Lipkova ‘14 Nisha Bhat ‘14. Background. Internship organization:

derick
Download Presentation

Empowering Disadvantaged Youth through Educational Programs

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Empowering Disadvantaged Youth through Educational Programs VeronikaLipkova ‘14 Nisha Bhat ‘14

  2. Background Internship organization: IkamvaYouth, a township-based non-profit organization which aims to connect students in the townships to post-graduation employment or higher education opportunities. Based in Khayelitsha, the largest and fastest growing township in Cape Town

  3. Education in the townships • Poor matric results and low awareness of post-graduation opportunities lead to high percentages of unemployed youth—over 60% in Khayelitsha • Many township youth are infected and/or affected by HIV/ AIDS

  4. How does IkamvaYouth help? • Addresses obstacles to education through: • Supplementary tutoring • Career guidance • Mentoring • Computer literacy, computer access • Creative workshops • AIDS/ HIV awareness workshops and testing • More than 70% of Ikamvanites so far have gained access to higher education upon graduation (compared to the 5% township average)

  5. Winter School • IkamvaYouth’s Winter School: career exploration workshops, tutoring, and HIV/ AIDS education and testing • Organization/ Facilitation • Traveling to local universities to talk to interested departments for career workshops • Contacting Cape Town organizations to run programs • Teaching English classes

  6. Research • Does Ikamva help learners achieve financial stability? • Research eventually will be used to improve funding • Collection of data • Where are former Ikamvanites now? • Studying engineering at the University of Cape Town • Employed by the South African Department of Education • Employed as social workers in their community

  7. Conclusions • What obstacles do educational NGOs in developing nations face? • Lack of resources • Social problems • Lack of cooperation from schools, parents, etc. • What role does education play in development? • What can we do to help?

  8. Acknowledgements • This internship was designed as a sort of follow-up to a Princeton freshman seminar, “The Hedgehog and the Fox,” taught by Professor George Philander • PEI Development Grand Challenges • IkamvaYouth • Dr. Carl Palmer, UCT

More Related