The Pravah Activate! Youth Exchange Programme
What I've learned... “The exchange helped me understand the need for cooperating with each other on similar issues of development. Such cultural immersions help in seeing different people’s viewpoints and encourage same-paging.”
“ I learned to never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed young individuals can change the world regardless of their background or their country’s economic status.”
Phathuxolo Ndzimande
Ajay Kumar
Ashish Kumar Rajput
“Breaking stereotypes and biases about each other has been a key aspect of my exchange learning journey. Going forward I now believe that global community development is about working together and using our different cultures and experiences to drive that change.”
“I’ve learnt that our global diversity brings us as young people closer together as we work and thrive to make a positive change in our societies.”
Nombulelo Ngwentle
“I have gained skills and knowledge that will help me contribute to my home community and I am glad to be part of an ever-growing network of young people across the globe who can collaborate for the future.”
“I learnt to seek to understand than to be understood “
Mthunzi Gasa
Fouziya Tehzeeb
“The experience helped me challenge my own beliefs and views. I now choose to share this experience with my own community members by engaging people from different backgrounds in conversations about common issues faced by us.
Nthabeleng Jabani
Vineeta Kumari
“It was a great opportunity and it was my first time flying. I realised when I arrived in Uganda that although we come from different places that are far apart, we have similar challenges in our communities.”
Bipasha Bhattacharyya
Pako Kgosiencho
14
“I have learned to instinctively appreciate the value of intercultural collaboration during the exchange programme training; to have understanding and to respect the next person’s frame of reference and also be empathetic to how people do things differently”
“I learned that by coming together to learn from each other we can navigate through social systems and structures that we experience like patriarchy, caste systems, race and economic inequalities despite being separated by our borders, and that this will help us build a better and more inclusive cross border space.”
