Name of Organization:
Leaders Who Dare to Dream Foundation
Description of Organization:
The Leaders Who Dare to Dream Foundation is a non-profit organization founded with the mission of advocating, promoting and providing accessible youth empowerment programmes across Africa. Their mission is to empower African youth through leadership skills development, active citizenship and dialogue. In 2016, the Foundation launched its flagship programme, Breaking Down Borders Africa Youth Initiative, a platform that enables African youth to collaborate towards social skills development in their respective communities through dialogues, networking, peer-learning and skills transfer.
Context:
As reported by the organization, African youth experience xenophobia, racism and intolerance, especially in the context of immigration across the continent and around the world. The Leaders Who Dare to Dream Foundation recognizes that most of the current research and resources are focused on racial and migrant discrimination in Europe and North America, vastly omitting the realities in Africa. Too often, young people’s role in addressing discrimination and intolerance is overlooked.
Proposed Project and Expected Results:
The need for accessible resources for meaningful youth participation in interventions addressing xenophobia and racial discrimination specifically designed by and for African youth is what drove the Leaders Who Dare to Dream Foundation to create a platform for young people from different African countries to collaborate on developing resources that will be easily accessible and transferrable to young people across the continent.
In collaboration with selected youth leaders, the Foundation will co-create three thematic toolkits addressing a) Xenophobia and Discrimination; b) Racial Intolerance and Injustice and c) Migration, Immigration and Refugee Rights. Participating young leaders will subsequently run workshops in their local communities, using the toolkits as a resource. A digital campaign will accompany the project to reach a wider audience.
Project Coordinator: Nthabiseng Modjadji
Contact Information: nthabi@breakingdownbordersafrica.com