Let's go Jozi

Who knew that a former night club would one day host the future host the youth of tomorrow? That is exactly what Pastor Fourie thought when he walked into the former night club and thought that it would be a brilliant idea to open a youth centre in the hub of Johannesburg.
Youth centres are a new initiative that most people have adopted as a means to reach out to the youth of South Africa. However there those youth centres that do poo out from the rest. Let’s go Jozi is one of those brand new youth centre but this one is with a difference.
It just does not focus on helping the youth get over specific problems they focus on a holistic effect. They youth centre focuses on helping the youth not just with their education but also how to make a living out there in the world. Fourie Rossouw the founder of this youth centre said that the difference between their youth centre and others is that they will not just focus on one aspect.
‘We noticed that there were too many students who would hang around the building for two or three hours before they went home. That is when we decided to open up the centre to give school students a place to hang out for those two to three hour doing their school work so that when they get into a taxi to go home they now that 90% of their work has already been completed’ said Rossouw.
The youth centred which is getting most of their funding from The Youth Zone and Oasis mentioned that they will be running a small business school, computer lessons, extra school lessons classes and also a t-shirt design business at the youth centre. Bongani Khumalo the IT guru in the mix will be the one who will be running the computer classes.
‘These children will be taught how to use the computer, how to do research and also it will help out the other students who are studying IT in school. The centre does not focus only on those learners who know how to use the computer it will also focus on those learners who want to learn how  to use the computer or upgrade their computer skills’ said Khumalo.
The centre is also very different because they focus on Reconciliation. ‘We have noticed that there is a lot of division amongst the youth that was born after 1994, there is still a lot of racism between them and with this centre we are trying to bridge the gap between the economically, socially and educationally different,’ said Fourie.
The centre opens formally on the 16 of July but they have already started with some of their youth initiatives like the walk where learners from different walk of life to come together and try and work things out.

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