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 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.
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.
Peer Educators
Peer Educators are selected teenagers who join the gold Programme for 1-2 years. Through mentoring from 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.
gold Grads
Our alumni become part of the gold Grads community for life and are connected to various opportunities in:
- further education,
- workplace internships,
- entry-level jobs and
- entrepreneurship ventures.
Peer Education Activities
- Strat Chat
- Lesson Delivery
- Talk Group
- Skills Training Session
Curriculum Resources
gold Programme participants receive resources containing all they need to engage successfully in the programme. Topics that are covered in the gold Curriculum fall into 6 modules of content:
- Leadership (including Work Readiness and Entrepreneurship)
- Self-development
- Gender, Relationships and Rights
- Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Communication Skills
- Community Action