What is Phase One - Intervention?
The first and a key aspect to Mylife’s current work is a process called Intervention. The intervention process is aimed at preventing, diverting and intervening in the lives of youth at risk by providing them with physical activities such as soccer, boxing and skateboarding. Other activities involved with this stage are Arts & Culture which contains Music, Dance, Arts & Crafts, Photography and Film & Media. The intervention projects also look at including mentorship & leadership training, life skill development and raising awareness of both drug use and HIV/AIDS.
Mylife is currently working on an industrialised youth empowerment project which is based on the concept of an Ubuntu Village. This process is broken down into four phases, the first being the Intervention stage. Once the village is up and running the intervention stage will be used to identify the appropriate youth that show the desire to change and make something of themselves. These Intervention projects are able to test one’s commitment to both the Mylife project and the programmes it offers. Mylife has identified these sports to be a good platform to facilitate this intervention stage as it is a great form of building confidence, purpose and team spirit.
What is the Purpose of the Intervention Phase?
Children in our communities have very few activities and opportunities available to them both during the week and on weekends compounded by a lack of infrastructure to run these activities. This is one of a myriad of reasons why children/youth are gravitating towards addiction which leads to crime, disease and gangsterism. With physical activity these children can and are being diverted from the negative influences all around them.
Our programmes have been running for years at grass roots and have developed with a bottom-up approach – building trust with the streets through various initiatives chosen by the youth and children we serve. Our young leaders are now going back into their communities to mobilise action through physical activities such as street soccer, skateboarding, music and dance. By combining music and sport we are reaching a wider audience and making an impact on more children than ever anticipated. We are using these platforms for prevention and diversion by bringing HIV/AIDS and drug awareness and support to the communities.
Database
A key factor in the activation of these intervention programs is the database we will be forming. All participants will be required to submit all there details to provide a database to facilitate and record our reach. As well as compiling a database we will facilitate the distribution of vital documents including ID’s, Birth Certificates and Passports. We are hoping to establish a partnership with governmental departments (home affairs) to aid in the efficiency of this process.