Youth Leadership Development Project
This project's parent organization is Centre des Jeunes pour la Paix
It operates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
It uses Football (Soccer)
Shortlisted for the Sport for Conflict Resolution Award
More about Youth Leadership Development Project
The project activities consisted primarily to gather in five post conflict villages, 350 Young Leaders: equal number (boys and girls) aged 7-30 years old from different communities divided by conflict: (Banyamulenge, Bembe, lega, Fuliru, Bwari, Nyindu and pygmy: indigenous population) around the football and life skills curricula that equips them with the knowledge and skills needed to make responsible decisions about their lives, including: Football3, football clinic, Identifying the issue/concern, developing a plan, implementing the plan, and evaluating the plan, etc.
Apart from the training received, the project will also strengthen the capacity of these 350 Young Leaders through joint sessions on Football3, Football-Theater, and Football Antis-AIDS with Young Leaders from other streetfootballworld network organizations members, including: Espérance from Kigali-Rwanda.
After training, these 350 Young Leaders who have been trained, will go to their villages and schools to support and assist 8750 youth by organizing football competitions, football events and soccer tournaments to promote tolerance, dialogue, gender, breaking down stereotypes, recruitment into armed groups, lack of employment and abuse of drugs and alcohol by youth, the healing from trauma, HIV / AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases.