Investing in our youth for social and economic transformation
The message giver is the strongest message
Investing in our youth for social and economic transformation
The message giver is the strongest message
The Programme
gold Peer Education
Personal change leads to Group change, which leads to Community change
gold Peer Education is based on the reality that many people make changes not only based on what they know, but on the opinions and actions of their trusted peers. Peer Educators can communicate and understand in a way that adults can’t, and they can serve as role models for change.
The gold Solution: Deep and Wide
To ensure scalability and replicability, gold-youth has a “deep” and “wide” strategy.
The gold Model is delivered through two modes of delivery which allow for a deep and wide ecosystem of gold Model replicators and implementation partners.
These partners are made up of a combination of grassroots youth organizations and government systemic partners. They are part of a gold community of practice and collaborate with gold-youth and each other in a common vision to see an Africa where young people from across the continent know the gold that is inside of them and live this out with purpose.
gold-youth serves the ecosystem through provision of varied levels of capacity building, quality assurance and co-financing.
Click on the button to download the gold Model Activity Plan used for ‘deep’ implementation.
Programme Participants
Facilitator Interns
gold-youth provides a job creation opportunity as a Facilitator Intern for out-of-school youth. They are trained to train and mentor teenage leaders called Peer Educators. Facilitator Interns start as a Junior and move through 4 years of their internship until they are a Lead Facilitator Intern.
Peer Educators
School-going youth begin the programme as Juniors (age 13-14), and move through 4 years until they graduate as Lead Peer Educators. Through the four-year relationships with Facilitator Interns, Peer Educators are taught to model positive decision making and educate their peers and younger children to make positive choices, strengthen their schoolwork and maximize their impact on their communities.
Peers & Younger Children
Friends and younger children positively impacted by the Peer Educators through role-modelling, Peer Educator-to-Peer education lessons and talk groups, advocacy messaging and community outreach projects.
