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Young Africa more alive than ever!
Young Africa
August 03, 2007

Young Africa has been used very cheaply lately in an attempt to bring out negative news on the country. The website Zimdaily, pretending to be a professional news website, has published two false stories about our satellite centre in Epworth, stating that it was harassed during our annual sports festival and recently even claiming that it was closed down by CIO's.

Let me tell you this, Young Africa, both in Chitungwiza and Epworth, is more alive than ever! We have had a great first six months of the year, with more beneficiaries coming to the skills centres than ever before! At present, we have over 2200 beneficiaries coming to YASC for training, the youth club, film screenings, library, internet café and the crèche. Also the sports festival in both Chitungwiza and Epworth was a great success, attracting over 4000 visitors.

Our opening of the new semester was visited by a huge amount of interested new students, so we look forward to reaching even more beneficiaries during the second half of the year. As the socio-economic climate in Zimbabwe gets worse, there is more work to do for us, reaching out to the underprivileged youth. The preparations for the annual Young Africa Arts Festival (YAAF) in both Chitungwiza (1 and 2 September) and Epworth (25 August) are very promising and we are looking forward to very good competitions and performances in dance, music, drama and literature.

Let's not believe what 'press' people write, they are paid to write whatever people want to read, but let's keep our eyes open, especially for the opportunities that are still there, and work together to support the youth in building their future and their country.

Yvette Bellens - Bosma
Project Coordinator Young Africa Zimbabwe

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