Youth Forum prepares for road ahead
We would like to take this opportunity to formally thank the Alex
youth for mandating the new leadership of the Alexandra Development
Youth Forum (ADYF) to advance and protect their interests.
As the new office bearers are quite aware we are faced with a
mammoth task to deliver on programmes that will benefit young people
in Alexandra. Based on this expectation, it was decided that we need a
strategic workshop to capacitate forum leadership, so as to meet these
challenges that lie ahead. To achieve this as the AYDF we have to
unpack and clarify our vision as to exactly what is it that we need to
do and how to do go about initiating youth programmes or activities.
To this effect, a two day strategic workshop was conducted on 22nd
September to deal with youth development issues. It was a resounding
success, despite contrary reports in the media that the workshop never
took place. For the record, we had to change the dates of the
workshop, as it did not suit certain strategic stakeholders including
the social welfare department.
Julian Baskin, ARP director and other stakeholder groups attended
in order to demonstrate how important this workshop was to everyone
interested in seeing our youth progress.
The forum is busy packaging programmes that it believes will
benefit the youth from creating training opportunities, job
placements, access to bursaries and scholarships. In short the forum
must make a meaningful and positive impact in the lives of young
people in our township. And when this happens we can proudly as the
AYDF collectively say that our mission has been accomplished.
ABOUT THE YOUTH FORUM
GOVERNANCE
The AYDF Executive Committee comprises of 14 young people
democratically elected into office on the 23 June 2006. There are five
office bearers and nine additional members.
VISION
• To be a vibrant coordinating youth development organisation in
greater Alexandra.
MISSION
• To operate in a consultative manner.
• To adopt a holistic, sustainable and targeted programme
implementation approach.
• To ensure strategic linkages with relevant stakeholders.
• To set up monitoring and evaluating systems for tracking delivery in
terms of the AYDF mandate.
• To set clear and measurable outcomes.
OBJECTIVES
• To put youth development on the primary agenda of all development
initiatives.
• To lobby and advocate for youth services that meet the needs of
young women and men in Alex.
• To mobilise youth around issues of youth development.
• To coordinate, monitor and evaluate youth programmes.
• To pilot and test new initiatives. |
