Among 42 President’s Awards for Youth Empowerment leaders from across the country and leaders from Grahamstown and other Eastern Cape centres attended the organisation’s first national Award Leader Indaba recently.
Among 42 President’s Awards for Youth Empowerment leaders from across the country and leaders from Grahamstown and other Eastern Cape centres attended the organisation’s first national Award Leader Indaba recently.
Held in Franschhoek, in the Western Cape, this was the first of the organisation's 30th anniversary events. At the Indaba Mpumi Makinana (Upstart), Tim Barnard (St Andrew's College) and Sinawo Jantjie (Department of Social Development, Port Alfred) engaged with their fellow Leaders on aspects of organisational branding, sustainability and licensing.
'It was an opportunity for The President’s Award to acknowledge the important contribution that volunteers make to the success of the organisation nationally and to celebrate the diversity of contexts that the Award is operated in,' says CEO Martin Scholtz.
Barnard says the Indaba was challenging and uplifting and 'The mixing of Award Leaders from community youth groups, correctional centres and schools was hugely helpful, and there are definitely positive synergies that were developed'.
The President’s Award for Youth Empowerment celebrates 30 years of youth development in South Africa this year and its national office has been situated in Grahamstown for all except two years of that history. Photo: Supplied
