PeacePlayers South Africa Storybook FINAL - Flipbook - Page 8
PROBLEM STATEMENT
In post-apartheid South Africa, children and youth of different ethnic groups
remain geographically divided by race, culture, education, and class. Youth
attending less affluent schools, mostly urban communities, rarely receive the
opportunity to develop friendships with other groups, resulting in a lack of
awareness of the necessary change needed. This division leaves township and rural
youth marginalized and lacking access to extracurricular activities to gain essential
life skills in a sports setting, within their schools and communities.
THEORY OF CHANGE
IF PeacePlayers South Africa engages children and youth from different ethnic
groups to participate in impactful and long term life skills through basketball
programmes, by providing access to shared safe spaces to collaborate, develop
leadership skills and friendships;
THEN they will become a diverse, inspired and capable group of
peace advocates working to influence social change in their schools
and communities within South Africa.
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