For two weeks I was working in Siyabuswa and Jane Furse. One week in each site. I was deeply touched by the computer skills and life skills interest of youths in these two zones and how much WE are hungry to do or learn more to develop our lives to do what we want in our respective lives in rural areas. I formed so many relationships with the local sports teams, agricultural projects, JF lovelife, feeding schemes for the poor, organic projects. we spent time sharing times on the table…

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This past week was one of those when I was proud of myself, my colleagues and our supporters. Why am I proud? Because we stuck to our guns (as a manner of speech) in including our neighbouring countries in the Youth Zone Legacy Network Program. Through the Manican participants, Mutare Utd was incorporated into the program and the twinning relationship growing on either side of the border seems to be turning into something special.



The Life-skills conducted in Zimbabwe this week was a… Continue

Hi everyone!

This is a comment made by the ladies from the guesthouse where some of the Youth Zone members stayed during the seminar.

"It was a pleasure having them. It restored our faith in the youth of today”.

You guys impacted people wherever you went!…

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I am Cecily and I am on the management committee of the FSSA. I have been so inspired to see and hear what you guys and girls are doing in your regions. You seem to have so much energy and enthusiasm for participating in these youth zones. Schalk and Doc are also amazing in what they are bringing and I hope that you all can use their knowledge and skills to learn lots about life and sport and many other things. I also hope to be able to be more involved with the project as time goes by, and…

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what a succesful trip for Waru, mr man, hard and two zimbabweans! they went to south africa to a two day seminar. ffrom which they say they learnt a lot. i think they did by the way they are informing us. teaching us.

more of this will be advantegeous to many communities. thanks to fssa and idassa and van heerden junior.

yesterday while standing in bumper to bumper traffic in the rain, five men opened my car door and and asked for my telehphone, with the added persuasiveness that they would shoot me if I didn't hand it over. As I reached for my phone, they saw my laptop uncovered and asked for that also, under the same conditions of compliance. Lastly was the brainwave that I should have a wallet, so in the end they ran of and kept my iphone, macbook and wallet. I kept my car and my…

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Wow! The agenda was a 2 day Peter Block Seminar where leaders from the youth zones were to be trained in community building, facilitation and teamwork.

The outcome was 3 days of bliss where 14 strangers became close friends. Representatives from Upington, Umzimkhulu, Mutare, Manica and Siyabuswa added life and wisdom to the seminar.



I trust that all the participants will write about their experiences on the pages of their respective sites, but as the team reflected on what they… Continue

this is thankful gift to doc mabila you are a kind and friendly guy you did a lot for my life,shares,you can take someone from one place to another level.

the workshop on comminity building brought about just a new born baby as i met a group of people that i pray to god wont get tired of trying to become beacons of hope to their respective people they live with.

keep up the good and god will provide

see you all

rottas

i learnt a lot from one of my colleagues from manica. and his name is hard life. he is an amazing person and he is humble and disciplined.

i like the diversity of the group of people i met during the seminar. i learnt a lot especially from colleagues from different youth site zone

the interaction of people during the seminar was amazing. and all my colleaques from other youth zones are just special.