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Our early intervention in their personal growth processes results in individuals with far more positively balanced outlooks, benefiting their communities enormously. The Trust’s work is founded on the belief that giving young people trust and responsibility in a supportive and non-threatening atmosphere promotes their sense of well-being through achievement within a peer group environment. This is accomplished by providing challenging, meaningful, both physical and mentally demanding projects that include strong and genuine environmental or sociological facets. This in turn promotes the material, intellectual and spiritual development of the young people together with environmental awareness, so as to develop their full capacities and enable them to become responsible members of society.
The projects are normally in unfamiliar territory and environments, with similar but unknown Young People - away from each individual’s familiar terms of reference, reducing media and social pressures to enhance the effectiveness of the experiences, within practical restrictions we would endeavour to take the Young People to locations as remote and strange as possible. This would include contact within peoples of dissimilar ethnicity, and include authentic community work or precious environmental projects within those cultures.
The Trust for example is cultivating a partnership with organisations providing real and worthwhile aid to deprived communities in Southern Kenya, where the two organisations form true and lasting bonds between cultures that are so far-flung apart and yet so close in basic needs, dreams, and a fundamental right to live good lives.
The projects become complete with the presentation of the achievements before peer groups parents and teachers.
The Trust then provides further support through specific training providing opportunities for the Young People to return to future projects, and become mentors and role models for successive groups.
Encouragement exists at that point for the Young People to take responsibility for the Trust itself, adopting roles in the running of the organisation, and ultimately accepting ownership of the Trust – taking its work forwards into the future, and positively affecting thousands of lives.
All contributions received are employed in their entirety within our Projects – maximising the benefit to the Young People we seek to support.
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There was a man who lived along the ocean. One morning, at about 5:00 am, when he could sleep no longer, he decided to take a walk along the beach. It was a foggy morning, and the first rays of the sun were slipping above the horizon. The man enjoyed the walk; it was as if the beach belonged to him. He glanced down on the beach and saw a figure that seemed to be dancing. He wondered why anyone would be on the beach so early; his curiosity caused him to quicken his pace.
As he drew nearer, he realized that the figure was that of a young man, and he wasn't dancing... he was throwing something into the water. As he drew very close, he realized that the young man was picking starfish off the beach and was tossing them back into the water. "Why are you throwing starfish into the water?" he asked.
As the young man continued on with his task he replied, "The tide is going out, the sun is rising, and the starfish that are left on the beach will surely die."
"I understand," the man replied, "but there must be thousands of starfish on this beach. It seems such a waste of time and energy! You can't possibly get to all of them. There are simply too many and there are miles and miles of beach with starfish all along it. Can't you see that you can't possibly make a difference?"
The young man thought for a moment. He reached down to pick up another starfish, and as he gently threw it back into the sea he said, "It makes a difference... to this one." |
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