Murambinda Multi-Purpose Youth Centre, Simbabwe

Project name: Murambinda Multi-Purpose Youth Centre

Project location: Zimbabwe

Website: https://theyouthcorps.wixsite.com/youthcorpszimbabwe

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Project description:

Murambinda Multi-Purpose Youth Centre composes of a

1. Education
   Mini-School: We have classes for secondary school rewrites from Monday to Thursday. We teach mainly Science, Mathematics, English, Accounting and Business Studies.
   Our students are mainly those youths who have written secondary examinations and failed as well as those who dropped out of school before they wrote examinations.
   The teachers are mainly university and college graduates who have not been able to find employment owing to the economic crisis in the country.
2. Arts and Culture (Entertainment)
   • Musical Arts Studio
   Here we record our musical and Poetry compositions. It composes of one Computer and some basic recording equipment 1 USB microphone, one small Midi Controller and one monitor Speaker.
   • Creative Arts
   Students also take part in Drama, Poetry, and Story-telling as well as learning other artistic endeavours like beading, Doormats weaving, Vases making.
3. Projects Incubation: We assist youth to start , register, seek funding and manage income generating projects on the premises we have a ground that we use for projects to sustain the students.
    

Goal and purpose of the project:

MCYC is aimed at eliminating the vices which have invaded the once clean community owing to Unemployment and Redundancy of local youths. These include:

• Drug and Substance abuse,
• Prostitution
• Juvenile Delinquency,
• Petty Crime
• Gambling and Vagrancy

We aim to achieve this by providing:

• Information Access: Scholarships, Online Jobs
• Exposure and knowledge of Information and Communication Technologies,
• Employment Creation and Enterprise Incubation
• Recreation and Entertainment
• Arts and Culture

Motivation of the applicant / applicant team:

• We the youths of Murambinda are unemployed, though most of us are educated. We stay in a place where no industries exist and no more employment is taking place.
• We are marginalised. Most of the opportunities are gotten by the urban, connected youths while we in the remote areas are seldom informed of such opportunities.
• We need access to information as well as learn skills necessary for employment.
• The government has no programmes for youth engagement and to address youth issues.
• A growth point like ours doesn’t have community centre, please assist us to establish one.

Use of prize money:

• To acquire library Furniture, equipment and books
• Purchase of Computers and internet infrastructure,
• Acquire Projector , for showing cultural films
• Acquire Video and Audio Recording Equipment for creating Audio-Visual Arts Projects and to market them.
• To Purchase Digital Satellite Decoder for Entertainment
• To build an economic pole and thatch gazebo for our events, cultural and artistic rehearsals and creations.
• If possible also build an outdoor gym.
• ...and for sustainability, start and run a charity shop and collect minimum subscriptions from members of our library.