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This youth leadership and personal development community event series lead by Spaces for Youth and We Believe in Africa is to assist in fostering leadership and personal develop amongst youth and community members in Eldorado Park and the surrounding areas.
The event’s theme / name is currently called “Turning Point” and our aim is to create a positive turning point within our youth and community. We do this by inviting 3 – 4 speakers to share the lives journey, failures, successes and a message that will inspire these individuals to reach out of their current circumstances, create a turning point, aim high and work towards it. We also engage and challenge the youth to help us to make the community a positive place and make a difference. The event includes training on goals setting, people skills and leadership development.
We host 2 – 3 summits per year with in the community, with the aim of continuously raising the awareness, energy and expectations levels of the youth and community. We aim to raise up the positive energy levels of the youth and the community and with other leadership, sports and art events to keep the levels up and motivated.
Spaces for Youth’s vision is to unite and inspire youth and communities and its partner organization We Believe in Africa’s vision is to excite and ignite the possibility of life with in youth and community at large. So therefore this events’ vison is a combination of these two organizations visions, which is too unite and inspire the possibility of life with youth and the community.
These events are an opportunity for individuals to connect with people they would not normally have the occasion to speak to within their community, to better understand the life experiences of others and to challenge their own assumptions, prejudices and stereotypes.
Past events
Turning Point – 10 August 2019
“Work is love made visible…” – Turning Point Motivational Summit
The event on Saturday, 10th August is themed “
Saturday, 10th August is themed “#ForTheLove”. In which three expert speakers, in the areas of Music/Drumming (Joshua JSTAR Zaccheus), Professional Sport/Boxing (Melissa ‘HoneyBee’ Miller), Media& Live Presenting (Jerome ‘SLIM’ du Plooy), professional dancing, online personal training, yoga instructing and flexiblity coaching, (Tertia Dippenaar) shared successes, failures and a message that inspired others to reach out beyond their current circumstances. And to follow your passion and grow those talents you love about yourself.
Turning Point – 9 March 2019
“Leadership” – Turning Point Motivational Summit
The event on Saturday, 09th March was themed Leadership. In which three expert speakers, in the areas of Youth Business Leadership (Dr.Keishia Mohamed Padayachee), Youth Development Solutions (Shakes Dlutu), Environmental Management(Dr.Lee-Ann Moodley) share successes, failures and a message that will inspire others to reach out beyond their current circumstances.
Turning Point – 4 August 2018
“Laugh your way to Success” – Turning Point Motivational Summit
This was the second motivational summit we hosted this year and theme for this event was comedy, “Laugh your way to Success”. Thank you, Preston Hartlief, Simphiwe Mahlangu and Access Africa Channel for your sound and video support. (http://www.accessafrica.tv/) Thank you Micardo Cupido for the photographs.
Turning Point – 3 February 2018
Turning Point Partners
Spaces for Youth is a youth lead and focused organization whose purpose is to unite and inspire youth and communities. We currently host sporting, art and leadership events to execute our purpose. Over the past 20 years, the Spaces for Youth team has been hosting various sporting events, art classes, fundraising programs and excursions across South Africa. Spaces for Youth has an exclusive and permeant partnership with the organization,
We Believe in Africa.
