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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 games with regular school visits. |
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. |
Programmes