Kuyasa: Cape Town, South Africa

July 15 - July 30, 2012

Team members will be working to help educate and empower students in the area to become effective leaders. The team will follow the model of Kuyasa Empowerment, using a system of six separate Levels of Support to filter and sift the youth of the community. As they are educated, empowered and equipped, the desire is to have the means to move a select group forward; giving them greater and greater opportunity along with increasing responsibility and challenges to overcome.

This ‘Learning by Doing’ approach has been extremely successful in the past. By doing this within the context of the community, home and family; the transformation has been much more permanent and complete. Growth and leadership becomes fully integrated into who they are and their full identity, including the cultural context. This makes it all the more simple to re-approach their context to use the knowledge and skills they are equipped with. The learning is a contextualized process and so the product and implementation of the learning remains contextualized.

The goal, of course, is to identify the strongest leaders in the community and to offer them the opportunity to meet their full potential through holistic and experience-based, hands-on learning. The entire process that moves them through the Levels of Support emphasizes that a true leader will empower those around him/her. That the most influential leader will give him/herself away to see others move forward and plow back into their home community with the talents, resources and skills they have been given.

At the end of this mission trip, a 3-day backpacking trip and debrief in and around Zurich, Switzerland is scheduled for those who wish to partake. 

Age:  18+

Cost: Approximately $2,800.00

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