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Focuses on empowering school aged children
In many ways the grass roots of CFL lie in the YEP which
has existed since we began. Services include the
provision
of a safe after-school environment for children aged
5-14;
holiday camps; and teaching peace-making skills through
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Youth At Risk |
Targets Older Youth
Began in 1996 with three week camps. Youths aged 14-25 are
taken out of their regular environment to think alone without peer
pressure. Today YAR includes a mentorship programme, a diversion project,
and a young mothers project. |
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Tackles unemployment in the youth sector
A business training project started in 2002 and provided free of
charge to participants. A certificate is awarded following the completion
of a two-week business skills course, and a six-month 'trade
skills' training course (of participants choice). |
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Mediation scheme for youths
Established in 2001 this project has proved enormously successful.
Cases are referred by local law authorities. Our trained mediators meet
with victim and offender together to try and reach common ground and
resolve situations out of court. |
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Young Mothers
Project |
Forum to support and
reach out to young mothers
A program that aims to
empower young women to support themselves and their families through the
upheavals of daily life within the community. The program enables the
women to express concerns and share their experiences while focusing on
themselves and how they can improve in order to live a better life.
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Men For Life |
Support for the men of
Westbury
Men For Life was
established in October 2003 with the goal of working alongside the men in
Westbury to create a better environment for themselves, their family
and the community. |
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Computer Training Centre |
Computer skills
development
Computer training courses
are provided by Conquest for members of the community who want to develop
their computer literacy skills. There are various levels within the
program from which students receive a certificate once they have
successfully completed their course. |
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Developing youth in Prison
"Reathusana" is a Sotho word
meaning helping each other. The Reathusana Child Youth Justice Project is
part of Conquest For life's Youth At Risk Project. The project targets
awaiting trial young offenders under the age of 18 and aims at
rehabilitating young people while incarcerated. The project is designed to
monitor and further develop young people's character and change their
mindsets through a variety of programs, which will be delivered by trained
enthusiastic young people from Conquest for life. |
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Empowering young
community
The Siyasizana Project is a project of Conquest for Life
that focuses on the arts and culture and targets children and youth in the
community. "Siyasizana" is zulu word and it means " we helping each
other". These young people are at risk of getting involved in gangsterism,
drug abuse, in trouble with the law and those that are developing social
problems at school. We also target young from community that would like to
make a change in their life. The project consist of 6 programmes; Arts and
Culture, Poetry, Drama, Arts Livity, Mentorship Programme, Parent and
Community Participation. |
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Empowering and engaging young/
old men to take Initiative
At Conquest For Life it is our aim to
establish a fully functional HIV/ AIDS Orphanage program called, " My
Fathers House Initiative" run by young men to address the issue from a
men's point of view. We strongly believe that young men must take
responsibility for their own actions and at the same time be encouraged to
enrich their own lives through education and self- empowerment. In order
to encourage the full participant of the Westbry community and impact the
attitude of young people about HIV/ AIDS, Conquest For Life has developed
an Initiattve project that will focus on engaging the youth to take action
in the face of HIV/ AIDS. |
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Facilitating Life Skills
Through Play.
This page presents the schools with which we have
formed close ties over the past couple of years. Contact details and
pictures of each school are provided in this page. |
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Developing The Leadership Of
Young People From The Community.
The Purpose of the !Xu and Khwe
Leadership Program is to educate and teach young people from the !Xu and
Khwe community, Life Skills, through a holistic programme of lessons and
activities in an intensive three months setting where they are not
influenced by the problems and troublesome environment of their
communities. |
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Exchange Programme |
Sharing international ideas and values
Exchanges are run with youths in Northern Ireland and USA, and we
are always looking for new opportunities! Exchanges between countries run
on alternate years. Lessons are applied to our communities and
youth. |
