charity and voluntary works:

WORLD HERITAGE VOLUNTEERING

The Youth Action Work Camp is an initiative adopted from the UNSECO World Heritage Volunteer Actions across the Globe. The World Heritage Volunteers (WHV) initiative was launched in 2008 to mobilize and involve young people and youth organizations in World Heritage preservation and promotion.

Objectives

  1. To raise awareness among young people, volunteers, local communities, and concerned authorities of the need to protect and promote World Heritage. 

  2.  To get young people involved in World Heritage preservation through concrete projects at sites, allowing them to learn new skills and express ideas. 

  3. Provide young people with opportunities to learn basic preservation and conservation techniques. 

  4.  Foster cooperation between local youth organizations, communities, site management and authorities. 

  5.  Identify best practices and develop non-formal education tools to facilitate stakeholders’ participation in the World Heritage education.  

Youth 2 youth lunched its first international camp in Zimbabwe on 13th June, 2014. It will be hosting similar events in the heritage sites preserving the environment while conservation of wild life and the natural inhabitants in the area is promoted. The camps also facilitate unique leadership trainings, team building, experiential learning and exposure visits to site; promoting culture appreciation and exploration. 

community school support and mentorship

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JIREH COMMUNITY SCHOOL

Youth 2 youth Zambia has adopted a community school called JIREH community school, it is located in lilanda. The school is managed by a passionate patron who is living with disability and has dedicated his life and works to help children living with disability, living in poverty and are infected or affected by HIV and AIDS. The school has 200 pupils and operates at primary level from grade one to seven

Having meet with the patron of the school and learned of his works at the school youth 2 youth team was moved to adopt the school for its charitable and volunteer works, mentoring and offering psycho social support to the pupils especially the most vulnerable population.

Objectives
  1.  To raise awareness on the importance of mentorship and peer to peer psycho support
  2.  To create a friendly learning environment the allows no discrimination and stigmatization in school towards it most vulnerable members 
  3. To fundraise for the community school infrastructure and improve the quality of education
  4.  Improving access to education in the community as we work with the ministry and community school strengthening their partnership.