Youth schools Holiday program REPORT 2014/15
By: Francis Church
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CONTENT PAGE Foreword ……………………………………………………………... 2
Acknowledgements …………………………………………………… 3 Executive Structure …………………………………………………… 4 Executive Summary …………………………………………………... 5 Programme Weekly Schedule ………………………………………...
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Day 1: Life & Business Skills Workshop ……………………………. 6 Day 2: SAPS Excursion …………………………………………….. 8 Day 3: Movie-making Workshop …………………………………... 10 Day 4: NICRO Workshop & Indigenous Games ……………………... 12 Day 5: Sports Against Crime ……………………………………….. 15 Full Week (Catering Plan) …………………………………………….. 17 Promotion & Recruitment …………………………………………….. 17 Monitoring & Evaluation ………………………………………………. 18 Programme Conclusion ………………………………………………... 19 Report Attachments: Income & Expenditure Sheet Daily Attendance Registers
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Foreword Director: Social Crime Prevention YSHP Report 2014/2015 I have the pleasure of presenting the YSHP Report for 2014/2015 of St. Francis Church (Diocese of False Bay) which was hosted in Zwelethemba township/community from the 15 – 19 December 2014. This report has been prepared as required by paragraph 5.1 of the Memorandum of Agreement entered into by St. Francis and the Department. The report complies with all reporting requirements by the Department as prescribed. It gives assurance that government resources/funds were used only for the purpose for which it was approved for, which is detailed in the Business Plan (Attached in the Memorandum of Agreement). In my capacity as the Chairperson/Priest-in-Charge of St. Francis church within the Diocese of False, I hereby formally submit to you as the Executive Authority, the St. Francis Church (YSHP’s Progress Report).
Rev. N. Nomxego (Religious Leader/Chairperson) St. Francis Church (Diocese of False Bay) Date: 31 December 2014
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Acknowledgements The St. Francis Church (Diocese of False Bay) in partnership with the Department of Community Safety (DCS) hosted the Youth School Holiday Programme (YSHP) in the community of Zwelethemba from the 15 – 19 December 2014. The project steering committee (St. Francis Chapel Council) is most grateful to the following organisations for their unwavering support and valued contributions during the project: • Department of Cultural Affairs & Sports (DCAS); • South African Police Services (SAPS); • Eagle Marketing (Pty) Ltd; • Breede Valley Municipality (BVM); • Unobuntu Thusong Service Centre (TSC); • Zwelethemba Community Policing Forum (CPF); • Brand Media House (BMH); • National Institute for Crime Prevention and Reintegration of Offenders (NICRO); • Independent Electoral Commission (IEC).
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Executive structure:
Rev. N. Nomxego (Priest-In-Charge)
Mr. Z. Sikwata (Church Warden)
Mr. T. Mgoqi (Financial Officer)
Mrs. L. Tani-Thobela (Events Officer)
Mr. M. September (Church Warden)
Mr. L. Gagu (Alternate)
Mr. G.J. Bulani
Ms. N. Mnyuka
Mr. T. Skomolo
(Church Secretary)
(Side Person)
(Side Person)
Ms. L. Skenjana (Additional Member)
Mr. D. Sakathi (Maintenance)
Mrs. G. Xati (Social Responsibility)
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Executive summary Young people are often at risk, exposed to violence or indulge in anti-social behaviour either through choices they make or induced by the environment (community) they live in. Youth-In-Action (YIA) is a 1 week long multi-disciplines youth programme that is hosted by the St. Francis church in partnership with the Department of Community Safety during school holidays. The programme targets young people (between 14 – 20 years of age however not excluding other youth) around the community and educates them to be agents in the fighting against social crimes within the Zwelethemba community. This programme started this year in June and once more St. Francis has hosted the programme for festive school holidays to keep young people engaged through sporting activities, discussions, fun & games. The programme is set to: 1. Increase awareness of crime & violence and encourage wide involvement from the community at large in fighting crime, especially starting with our young people; 2. Identify focal groups that can assist in social crime prevention; group of individuals who are involved as victims (affected)/ex-perpetrators and former in-mates; 3. Through interactive sessions (individually and in groups), open discussions, fun & games – the programme intends to develop and encourage young people to become young leaders, be goal-driven, to act/fight against any criminal activities; 4. Lastly, promote community dialogue and participation in support of crime prevention initiatives. Achievements Compared to June’s holiday programme, this one has shown some great improvement in all angles, expectations and aspects; this starts from an increase in attendance which is double than the winter program. Some of our achievements includes a strong support received from both key role-players (i.e SAPS and CPF) and other partners who contributed to what we intend to achieve with the programme as outlined. Brief summary of our daily programs throughout the week: • Day 1: Life & Business Skills Workshop (Eagle Marketing Pty Ltd) • Day 2: Justice System Youth Excursion (SAPS) • Day 3: Basic Filmmaking Workshop & Movie Screening • Day 4: Youth Workshop and Indigenous Games (DCAS) Day 5: Closing Sports Against Crime Tournament
6 WEEKLY SCHEDULE Date: 15 December 2014 Venue: St. Francis Church (Cona Avenue) Participants: 20 (Age group 16 – 18 years) Facilitator: Mr. Alec Goliath & Mr. Clifford Damons (Eagle Marketing Pty Ltd) Leadership & Entrepreneurship Workshop: This was a capacity-building session for youth seeking opportunities and assists them in improving their skills, to understand and develop their own potential leadership and business/entrepreneurial skills. This sort of session contributed more towards educating the participants on values of Active Citizenship in our country at large, starting from the community in particular. The workshop aimed at developing youth leadership skills through motivational speaking, presentation, interactive sessions, discussions, games and other awareness activities. After lunch-time - the participants were divided into two groups and this session was focusing on Business Techniques. To kick-start the session, each group was given a task of writing down all qualities of becoming an Entrepreneur and what should a Business Plan contain in their own understanding. First few minutes of the session was about how to come up with a viable business idea, writing a business plan, determining target market, and how to conduct a feasibility study. This session covered briefly these business awareness training points:
Start-Up – (Understanding Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial qualities, identifying business opportunities and financing). Small Enterprise – (Legal aspects, marketing, management, financial management, business administration, and business planning). Business Planning Process – (Marketing, financial requirements, finance and business plan for new ventures).
The first group: presented a co-operative (Jambase Fisheries) which intended to sell fish, vetkoeks, potato chips, russians, etc. The co-operative’s target market is low income earners who can afford their services. Their marketing strategy was distributing leaflets of their company around the community including word-ofmouth, and public promotions (free tasting sessions). The second group: came up with an idea to have a digital & social café based in the community. This café shop will offer services like internet access, digital printing, typing & copying, faxing, and selling of both muffins & coffee. The café will be located at the Unobuntu Thusong Service Centre which according to them is less expensive and easy to reach for their target market. This session equipped the participants with the necessary skills to start, run and grow a small to medium business within the community hub. It presented the participant with the theoretical background on how to test if an idea is in fact a feasible business opportunity. It also encourages participants to become economic enablers, to become self-empowered and self-sustainable and stay away from criminal acts.
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8 Date: 16 December 2014 Venue: St. Francis Church (Cona Avenue) & SAPS (Worcester) Participants: 20 (Age group 16 – 18 years) Facilitator: W/O Mkhontwana (SAPS) Justice System Youth Excursion (SAPS): Many of our young people are getting raped, robbed, accused, and some are actually the ones that commit these criminal activities in our communities. As part of the Holiday Program we would like to educate and inform these young people to learn briefly about the basics of our justice system, its processes i.e info needed when one is opening or involved in a case. In this session, the group was involved in a tour around SAPS Administration building and had a Q&A session with the facilitator (W/O Mkhontwana) and staff on each session/part of the program. The program for this day started at St. Francis church with participants’ registration process and breakfast. Then before the group travels from St. Francis to Police Station (SAPS), we had a guest speaker who’s a final year Law Student in UWC (Mr. Sabelo Skenjana) to speak to the participants about career advice for those who might be interested in studying towards Legal studies (LLB/Paralegal). After our guest speaker, participants travelled to SAPS to start with the excursion. PART 1
CSC FRONT DEST
PART 2
PART 3
PART 4
CRIME
OPS
RADIO
OFFICE
ROOM
ROOM
On the CSC (Front Desk) of the police station, W/O Mkhontwana introduced the participants to the Officers on duty and highlighted a brief overview of services offered in the CSC (i.e. certification, one-on-one area, filling a case, etc). W/O Mkhontwana showed them portraits of the Minister, Deputy, Premier, including the Worcester SAPS Organogram on the CSC reception starting from who is the Brigadier to Captain. Participants were also showed how police personnel should look like in terms of their different uniforms and they should always have their name tags on them. Next on the tour was the Crime Office, an office for investigators who are working on various cases and unfortunately the participants were introduced to some few of them due to call of duty. In the Ops Room (Operations) participants were introduced to the staff and showed on how the Operations Room does in terms of monitoring SAPS vans/fleet, security cameras, start on duty, etc. The last stop of the tour was in the Radio Room where some of the public calls are screened and monitored. In this office, participants were introduced to 2 staff members on duty and one was focusing on taking public complaints and the other official was communicating with SAPS van drivers who were on duty that afternoon.
9 (Day 2: Visual Highlights) Photos by: W/O Mkhontwana
Date: 17 December 2014 Venue: St. Francis Church (Cona Avenue) Participants: 20 (Age group 16 – 18 years) Facilitator: Mr. John Bulani
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Film/Movie-Making Workshop: Filmmaking as a field is an exciting, dynamic, challenging and fast moving one that is growing rapidly in South Africa. A local young filmmaker which has recently graduated from CPUT (ND: Film & Video Technology) volunteered to conduct a workshop from a group of young people who are interested in telling stories (visually). This basic filmmaking workshop trained participants in creative writing, camera operating, directing & producing, and budgeting. After registration and breakfast, the morning session kick-started with a creative task that required the participants to draw, cut and paste. Participants had to draw and paste a colourful heading “Holiday Club 2014” as part of the décor in the main venue (St. Francis) for the week. Each participant was given a letter to draw, cut and paste on the wall to make make-up the whole heading. Creative writing zoomed briefly on the overview of the Three Act Structure of filmic narrative (establishment, journey and resolution). This was to make sure that participants understand how each act works, what form it takes and how it relates to each other act. Pay particular attention to how the Three Act Structure serves character development during each act. Participants were also introduced to the role of the producer and director and all other crew, terminology used by the director and rules basic film grammar that the director must apply. This session middle-session ended off with introduction to skills, theories and practical application related to Set Design for Film and Television. Assignment: Participants were divided into five (5) groups of 4 members per group. The task was for each group to have a news team (i.e. headlines bulletin reader, weather reporter, sports presenter, and camera operator). What makes the brief creative and exciting; one would assume that participants would use professional broadcasting cameras but cellphones. This assignment required them also to focus more on capturing good quality sound using their cellphone speakers as their mic. Programme Outcomes; • Participants after this session were able to understand some of the following positions in a film/TV production: producers, directors, and camera operators, directors of photography, editors, scriptwriters, researchers and sound recordist. • The programme was structured in a way that participants develop knowledge and understanding of some aspects of film production enabling them to gain a basic understanding of how films are made.
11 00 (Day 3: Visual Highlights) Photos by: John Bulani
12 00 Date: 18 December 2014 Venue: Unobuntu Thusong Service Centre Participants: 20 (Age group 16 – 18 years) Facilitator: Mr. Eric Nduna This was a joint programme between St. Francis church, National Institute for Prevention and Reintegration of Offenders (NICRO), DCAS, Unobuntu TSC, and Breede Valley Municipality (BVM). The programme targeted young people around the community during the festive school holidays and it formed part of the whole programme that started on the 15 – 19 December 2014. The content of the session was based on following points: Life Skills Career Advice & Guidance Brain and Mind Functioning Good Citizenship After participants registration process and breakfast; the session started-off with the formalities (opening and welcoming) from the Programme Co-ordinator; Mr. John Bulani, then followed by a brief introduction about the session from the facilitator, Mr. Erica Nduna of NICRO. First session of the day was on Life Skills zooming in on the scarce skills that our country is in need of, especially when it comes to trades/courses like Engineering, Health & Science, etc. Mr. Nduna advised those who will be going to tertiary next year or in 2016 to choose their courses or field of study carefully and not follow their friends like most kids do. He also showed them a list of all the scarce skills that Government still require to boost the economy and employment-levels. Second session focussed on the Brain and Mind Functioning (Thought Process). Participants on this session learned more about difference between conscious, subconscious, and creative subconscious. Most of Mr. Nduna’s examples when explaining each brain part, made every individual in the auditorium to reflect and understand clearly function of each. The last session of the day before lunch was on Good Citizenship; a session which most of the participants had to reflect on their own roles as citizens of South Africa and what contribution they’ve made so far to make South Africa a better country. Part of this session included a self-evaluation assessment on how each participant sees him/herself in the Big Picture. After that, each participant had to present a simple drawing that defines how he/she sees her/himself in the next few years to come. After lunch: The Department of Cultural Affairs & Sports (DCAS) conducted coaching clinics for the participants in various Indigenous Games codes like puca, deketo, chess, dominoes, mraba-raba, debeke, etc. The facilitator (Tumi) motivated the participants to actively take part in both the next upcoming Regional and Provincial Indigenous Games (2015). This comes after receiving no much support/ participation from young people from the community. “After a successful session I’ve just had with these young talented participants, I think one or two of them will go and represent us in the National-level competition in 2015. We (DCAS) still need more involvement from all young people including their parents” said Tumi.
13 00 (Day 4: Visual Highlights) Photos by: John Bulani
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15 00 Date: 19 December 2014 Venue: Community Sports Ground Participants: 100 (Age group 14 – 17 years) Facilitator: Mr. Tumi (DCAS) The Zwelethemba Community Sports group was filled with excitement and sadness for some; as young people (13 – 18 years) from local junior sports clubs, organisations and other churches participated in the last event of the programme (Sports Against Crime tournament). A sporting event set as platform where participants could showcase their sporting skills in soccer, rugby, cricket and netball.
Event Proceedings: Morning session of the final day started in St. Francis for both clubs registration and breakfast. Mr. John Bulani welcomed all participating junior teams/clubs and gave an overview of the day’s programme. Due to unfortunate personal reasons, the Zwelethemba CPF Chairperson (Mr. Shoba) couldn’t manage to join the program as planned on the programme for his input on the status of crime in the community and highlight the CPF programs in place to fight against crime. Mr. Tumi from DCAS facilitated the official clubs draw and urged the participating teams/clubs to comply with the “Fair Play” rules of the beautiful game. Straight from St. Francis church, a lively and colourful procession by competing teams and supporters to the stadium showed unity and togetherness in a fight against crime in the community. The tournament had four teams/clubs competing for the 2014 Sports Against Crime trophies and two games were played with both U/15 and U/17 junior clubs. W/O Mkhontwana before proceeding with the handing-over ceremony of trophies, he first delivery a closing message which encouraged young people to act/report suspicious illegal crime activities and not involve or associate themselves with any of the illegal activities but always study hard in order to succeed in life and become role models for others. After all the formalities and whole week sessions, participating clubs/teams and audience were treated to a braai and entertained by a local DJ and other creative artists. “In my own view, our community is mostly dominated by football as the only sporting code that exists and to a lesser extent, netball, rugby, cricket, and athletics are often side-lined because of lack of resources and well-trained and experienced personnel. There is no doubt that having more programs like this one (YSHP) every term and working hand-inhand with the DCAS including local schools; we might have an opportunity to introduce new sporting codes and activities to the community at large” said Mr. John Bulani
There is no doubt that many participants got inspired by the programme and afforded some of them a chance to play and be active when there were no previous opportunities available like more competitions or proper sponsored league games available. Contributed greatly as a potential platform for talent identification and the process of creating young upcoming sports role models for others in the community.
16 (Day 5: Visual Highlights) Photos by W/O Mkhontwana
17 Full Week (Catering Plan) Day / Date
Breakfast
Lunch
Monday, 15
English Breakfast: Scrambled Eggs, Tomatoes, Cucumber, lettuce and Bread
Full Meal: Veggies, Rice and Chicken
Tuesday, 16
English Breakfast: Fried Eggs, lettuce, Tomatoes, Cucumber, and Bread
Full Meal: Veggies, Rice and Chicken
Wednesday, 17
Breakfast: Boiled eggs, tomato gravy, sausage and Bread
Full Meal: Veggies, Rice and Chicken
English Breakfast: Fried Eggs, Vienna’s, Tomatoes, Cucumber and Bread
Burger and Chips
Thursday, 18
Friday, 19
Fruit
Braai, roasted cookie and salads
Promotion and Recruitment Print Material: An official A5 leaflet and A4 poster (See Annexure 2) of the programme was designed and distributed a week before the programme commenced. These leaflets and posters were distributed around the community to churches, individuals, Taxi rank, and local shops. Social Networks: Our young people now are mostly on social networks in most of their time, and through various channels on social networks we think we’ve managed to reach some of them on various platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Mxit, and WhatzApp. The strategy was to allow participants to update their own accounts with latest updates of the program on each day. Radio: As according our initial plan before the program commenced; through our partnership with the Department of Government of Communication & Information systems (GCIS), we planned to have a weekly live-read that promotes the programme on local radio station (Valley FM). This included having an advert placed on our community newspapers like the Worcester Standard and Winelands Echo but unfortunately our partnership didn’t work-out as planned due to certain procurement glitches from their side.
18 TV Production: CPUT (Film Department) has promised to partner with us on the next holiday programme in terms of producing a video content gathered from the programme and be sent to Cape Town TV for broadcast and other channels. This video content will be divided into a series of documentaries that can be broadcast on weekly basis on the television station. Second part of the video content gathered from the programme will be created as an educational drug free DVD that can be given to schools and young people generally.
Monitoring & Evaluation On each morning of the programme, registration was taking place from 08:30 - 09:00. Sessions were commencing at 09:00am until lunch at 13:00. After every session, each participant was given a Facilitator’s Evaluation form to complete and submit. This process was to give each participant a chance to evaluate each workshop/session they attended if it fulfilled their expectation. This also included rating the professionalism behind the planning, implementation and catering for the day. After the official completion of the program; we have found that 70% of the participants rated the whole program “Excellent” and 20% referred to it as “Good” and the last 10% rated it to be “Average”.
19 Programme Conclusion Achievements Compared to June’s holiday programme, this one has shown some great improvement in all angles and aspects; this starts from an increase in attendance which is double than the winter program. Some of our achievements includes a strong support received from both key role-players (i.e SAPS and CPF) and other partners who contributed to what we intend to achieve with the programme as outlined in our Concept Document. Challenges The holiday programme was a huge success as measured by the objectives set out but more involvement still is needed especially from our key community role-players. Further, the next step to the next winter (June) holiday programme is to lobby more of the following: • Support from the local media (both print media and TV/Radio) • Participation from all youth structures (Religious, CBO’s, other community youth organisations, etc. • Crime prevention and educational products: Visible Awareness (i.e. leaflets, posters) • Support from all community-based organisations including both religious and political leaders. Conclusion The feedback from the participants, facilitators, parents, and partners suggests that there is a need for the YSHP every school holiday in Zwelethemba. Based on our own evaluation of the project; The Youth School Holiday Programme (YSHP) is now a living concept and an annual event (June and December holidays) with attributes that may be associated with it. The programme has created positive equity that may be leveraged for an excellent Youth School Holiday Programme (YSHP) during the June holiday programme (2015). The ground work has been laid for this year in terms of establishing the YSHP within the community of Zwelethemba. This means by June 2015 holidays; participation will improve even better according to the target reached this year. The project will also feature a career expo that will be providing bursaries, Learnerships, internships and employment opportunities for participants, especially those who will be doing Matric/Grade 12 in 2015. This also goes for more partnership opportunities that can be established in preparation for another school holidays programme. In 2015, the strategic plan is to also lobby tertiary institutions as partners in order to offer workshops and trainings for potential Grade 12 leaners that might need career advice & guidance or in need of a study bursary to study in 2016.
Mr. G.J Bulani (Program Co-ordinator)