In essence, I am the project. I position myself in areas where I can have the most impact to reach a world where everyone's basic needs are met. I hope to establish a methodology that easy enough for anyone and everyone to understand and apply so that even long after I'm gone, the work can still continue to reach this goal effectively.
What skills and resources were you able to draw from the community for this project?
Time and Effort
The challenges
There is a spike in community based projects, in some cases having 200 NGOs within one community and they're not being implemented effectively to help communities. They start of with good intentions yet they lack the knowledge on how to effectively help the communities they're involved with. This leads to a lot of wasted resources. Hence NGOs slowly collapse after loosing sight of why they exist to begin with, while some never get off the ground. This leaves the potential beneficiaries unassisted.
Addressing the challenges
Design and develop projects aimed at addressing basic human rights violations and social justice issues. I do this in three steps. [Step1]: Awareness programs focusing on these topics. Basic Human Rights, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Sustainable Development Goals and Social Justice Issues. Then [Step2]: Capacity-building projects on how to tackle the problems they have identified; Design Thinking and Asset-Based Community Development. And lastly, we have [Step3]: where we assist in designing and developing sustainable projects.
The achievements
Hand2Hand - ( Food Insecurity and Textbook Insecurity). . . EnactusUFS - ( Project Kutanga and The Crafters Workshop). . . Social Worker's Student Association - (Understanding Basic Human Rights and Addressing Taboo around Menstruation). . . Institute For Reconciliation and Social Justice - (Design Thinking Workshop in the context of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Leadership). . . Free State Center for Human Rights - (Project Development). . . Re-Future - (Designing PostNatural Buildings towards Climate Crisis)
Johannesburg, South Africa