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.
Deep:
gold Social Franchisees are non-profit organizations that gold-youth partners with to implement our programme. gold-youth gives these organizations a range of services, including quality assurance, which helps the peer education programme to run successfully in selected high schools and their surrounding communities. The many players that make up a community e.g. clinics, government, businesses, and families play an important part in supporting the programme and its participants. gold-youth works with many Social Franchisees in a province/region.
Wide:
We have packaged the key curriculum and lessons from the deep implementation of the gold Model, creating a DIY digital/print toolkit named Peer2Peer. This is serving multiple stakeholders who are implementing structured peer education programmes, and is adaptable for any context – youth or workplace.
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.
