Ikasi Youth 1566 views

The Everyday Heroes Club (Ikasi Youth’s flagship initiative) is a practical, results-oriented, holistic after school program whose aim is to drive positive change in the Imizamo Yethu township community of Hout Bay, South Africa. It provides a support structure and safe working environment for 20 high school boys, with the aim to help them discover and realise their true potential.Whilst the ultimate vision is to help these boys break themselves out of poverty, our mission is grounded through three primary focus areas: academic/career support, personal leadership/life skills, and ultimately a broader local community upliftment.Starting in 2012 in preparation to take our program to the youth of the world, we wanted to first show we can vastly improve the lives of 12. In order to do this, every idea we have and action we take must be replicable anywhere in the world. Our desire is to create a meaningful holistic program that can then be copied and rolled all across South Africa and the rest of the world. To do this we need to get it right for 12, then 24, and then 48...