They study the situation, discuss with inhabitants what is needed, do research on good practices, calculate costs + track progress (to be accountable to donors and partners) FUNdraise and participate in the realization.

The learning dimensions are many and enormous, which is why students + teachers + parents + town love it … so do other schools that have joined!

All that’s needed for Basic Needs

• kindergarten
• school (now 7 for the valley’s 7 villages)
• teacher salaries
• library
• reforestation
• greenhouses
• new crops
• eye health camps
• youth exchange

Also local youth have begun taking initiative. 

A 48 hour sponsor run, day and night. Gasp! It’s so epic that everybody joins, also parents, kindergartens, other schools, the mayor … which brings media on board … athletes … which brings companies on board as sponsors + as runners.

Simple. We can do this 🙂 You can do this 😀

In another small town of 20,000 inhabitants, a math teacher used the story in class, teasing his students “you wouldn’t even make 1,000”. Students fumed, decided to show him, and scored $10,000€ in year 1, and $20,000€ in year 2.

After reaching out to other schools, Namaste Nepal scored $700,000€ over 3 years.

Students have the magic and numbers. What teens in one place can do, teens everywhere can do. Adults can spark it by spreading the story + a nudge of encouragement 

#bemoreawesome

They patrol streets, change laws, make police capture rapists and murderers, got public toilets and CCTV surveillance installled, saved and detraumatized survivors, got on India’s most popular game show, trained military officers’ wives, then got invited to dozens of schools, train self-defense, educate on good touch bad touch. They have solidly changed worldview on women using violence.

They have now trained 30,000 girls, aim for 1 million, global experts come over to train the core crew, who have trained 100s of youth trainers. Chapters have formed in 10 cities.

During the pandemic, they protected their community from panic and hunger, handed out food for the poorest. They all volunteer and put 100% of global donations into action. 

Their scope of actions keeps growing. They have acquired land to build an Academy, as safe home, training ground and more.

Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, is a hard turf, where girls get assaulted, raped, murdered in daylight.

When RBT ask their 1st question at school:

“Where do you feel safe?”

• In public? Hell, no.
• At school? No. Teachers touch and rape.
• At the temple? No. It’s crowded, people touch badly.
• At home? No. Uncles, cousins, grand/fathers assault.

100% of girls say NOWHERE. Now you have an idea of the value of their work, why we adamantly support them, and why – when we say “they patrol streets, put harassers in their place, turn up at rapists’ house scream what he did to shame them in front of their families, and when needed, they beat them up” ALL EUROPEAN GIRLS AND BOYS SMILE “Yeah, right on.”

When we ask how it is with harassment and feeling safe in the dark in Berlin … you know the answer … and we get to work.

TAKE PART! Heal your city from savage beasts preying on girls and women.

… by young hero*ines.

Their hearts dream to see the same happen in Africa, they believe in YL’s spirit and community, and are highly motivated to follow the new approaches to make it happen.

Also, because

• they are fed up with corruption in the non-profit sector
• would greatly appreciate that poor rural and city youth / schools form bonds with affluent city schools and their (in South Africa) predominantly non-black community
• find common purpose and develop meaningful projects
• so that youth develop friendships and pipelines for professional future

which YL Coach status, partner projects and resulting media presence will help achieve.

YOU have bigger potentials than you imagine … and we are determined to unfold them fully.

… we seed fund YL media to activate local youth, set up exhibits – see how far local youth wish to go + what causes they most care for with

• Theatre leader in rural South Africa, near National Park
• Women’s Circle in Cape Town drug gang slum
• Youth Centre, calm coastal town
• Bee-keeper in rural village, Tanzania

each with entirely different problems and potentials! 

We seek to evolve LearnSpaces with activated youth teams

• that video meet with youth + schools globally
• develop and realize projects together
• with tourist visits, youth-led tours, youth exchange 

with your youth crew and school as lead partners!

This is Terri’s land and with merry backing of locals, she is building a unique spot in the yet luxury lodge and hotel focussed region – a casual, African style recycling flair eco-lodge to mix with locals around BBQ & banana beer, local artisans and more.

Plus, also off-season, it is to be a gathering space for local culture, permaculture learninga and development.

Further, Terri loves yL and the idea that the Centre become a LearnSpace and HQ for local youth with reach through the entire region and to neighboring countries.

This is a very rare and exciting combination!

… we do video-meets

• to learn about Africa
• the best music and dancers (of course from Rwanda!)
• how the country recovered from genocide
• about Terri’s fun life with the people
• to meet Terri’s friends
• to meet African youth
• to hear of their plans and how to take part

and to FUNd Kinigi Eco Lodge

+ go visit

• to get our hands dirty
• stay in local homes
• go on bike tours
• do day-trips to see grand wildlife
• even view gorillas in the wild

It’s an option for long-term stays for permaculture enthusiasts! Luwayo is ready to help!