Youth Outreach - GoLD

 

 

GoLD Peer Education Development Agency is a non-profit organisation that is equipping community based organisations to implement programmes in line with the GoLD peer education model.   It has recently won the internationally acclaimed Commonwealth Education Good Practice Award for helping education in difficult circumstances.

 

 

At the heart of GoLD is the belief that the message giver is the strongest message.  Information alone does not change people; people change when others around them change. GoLD Model (PDF)

 

 

Sethani has partnered with Schools 4 Schools to implement the GOLD programme in five schools in the Kwa Ngcolosi region.

Schools 4 Schools is a unique development programme that partners high schools in South Africa with high schools in Australia.  It aims to support education programs in the developing world and to encourage and equip students to develop their skills, educate each other, and work together to help create change.

Schools 4 Schools is an initiative of the Oaktree Foundation, Australia’s only youth-run international aid and development organisation.  Schools 4 Schools partners with GOLD to provide the programme to 12 schools across the KwaZulu Natal province and 4 schools in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa.

 

Peer Education Workshop

Peer Educators from the five high schools in the area where GoLD Peer Eduation is being implemented attended a full-day workshop at the Sethani Centre one Saturday.

Transport was arranged for everyone who took part in the workshop and the day was very well organised by Sethani’s six enthusiastic Peer Education Facilitators.

The learners participated in a number of skills sessions and other activities related to the curriculum, all of which were presented by the facilitators.

The learners remained focused throughout the day and enjoyed the sessions enormously. The hot lunch that was served was also enjoyed by all!

Peer educators at the Sethani Centre:

 

 WORKING DEFINITION OF GOLD PEER EDUCATION

GOLD peer education is the process whereby skilled facilitators assist a group of suitable young people to:

• Role-model health-enhancing behaviour.

• Educate peers in a structured manner.

• Recognize peers in need of help and refer them for assistance.

• Uplift their communities through: advocating for resources and services for themselves and their peers; acts of services; and raising awareness of important issues affecting youth.