Highlights:
Planning for Clubs and work
This month is used to evaluate and plan Youth Life’s programmes for the whole year, time is spent listening to youth leaders, parents of the children, Directors of schools, the children themselves and our volunteer workers to see if the work is really getting results or not. Risks are assessed and changes made to the work as plans are made for the whole year ahead. It is a very important time and very effective.
Children having a good time at one of the clubs together activities
Back to school program
Each year Youth Life finds children who have dropped out of the school system but want to re-enter and finish school. Youth Life partners with another organization called Helping Hand Charity Fund where a special school has been set up to help these children re-enter the normal school system.
Sasha attended the Back to school programme for 2 years and was able to re-enter school and finish and now he is studying at college. He wants to become a mechanic.
Student’s sponsorship 2006-2007
For the past 4 years Youth Life has had an initiative to help young people who have the desire and the ability to go on to University by raising sponsorship for them. The program which started with only 4 guys has grown now to 52 students. The programme is not all for free, there are conditions that the students must meet and they must pass all entry exams to the course they want to study. Each September new students enter this programme and start studying at University, this next year we will see the first 4 guys graduate after 5 years of studying at different Universities. So a big banquet is planned to celebrate the fact they have finished and to encourage the others studying not to give up but to finish what they start.
Ira, Alisher, Katja, Madina and Aisha are all in the Student sponsorship programme and are studying well.
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