Youth Camps and Festivals (Methodology three)
Youth Camps and Festivals – is a method that has proved to be so effective with the age group 14 to 23 years.
Interactive Development Forum camps and festivals are annual events. This methodology involves bringing together youth form all walks of life, school going and out of school youth. Using debates, drama, theater, poetry, music and dance; selected youths to take part in a given camp or festival prepare items to showcase.
Youth Camps and Festivals aim to;
- To develop knowledge and widen understanding of the participating youths on the key issues addressed by the Camp/festive and their importance to the young generation.
- To facilitate transfer of practical skills of community mobilization through training workshops, conventional, forum and guerrilla theater, speech and dialogue.
- To promote and facilitate experiential learning by bringing youths together in a camp/festival set up, where they will share their experiences from their local environment.
- To mentor participants in transformational leadership.
- To articulate the importance of young people as good communicators to support development of their communities.
- To motivate and support camp/festival participants to undertake and manage problems that occur on a personal level.
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