Imparting life skills and fostering personal development at camp
Girls and Boys Education Movement youth spend a weekend learning to go ‘Back2Basics’ through sports and facilitation so that they can be leaders in their communities.
Fun, personal development and the forging of new connections were the order of the day during an exciting weekend in Grabouw, Western Cape province, for a group of 87 teenage boys and girls.
These youngsters took part in a four-day ‘Back2Basics’ UNICEF Sport for Development Training Camp within the Girls and Boys Education Movement (GBEM) where they were supported to develop their agency, improve their leadership skills, and acquire the skills and confidence to lead GBEM programmes within their schools.
The camp’s aim was to ensure that learners are capacitated to facilitate peer-to-peer life-skills dialogues using sport and play, learn to have a voice where it matters, take responsibility for their actions and actively lead and implement a comprehensive sport and play-based life-skills and psychosocial support programme to improve school environments for learner safety.
“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination.”
