Reflections on site visits

After the site visits on African Youth Day, we did a reflection session, looking at some key questions:

What is the role of a peer educator?
• Show love
• Mentor
• Provide leadership
• Person who connects those who have knowledge and those who don’t
• Role model that can block out negatives
• To be a tour guide for lifestyle
• Give direction and psychological support

What do OVCs represent?
• Hope
• Represent purpose of YMCA existence
• Poverty
• Development challenges
• Bad leadership
• Mirror of our failures

What are the YMCA’s biggest assets?
• Power to influence
• Information sharing
• Youth as assets
• ‘Us’