Youth Potential South Africa - YOUPSA

Youth Potential South Africa - YOUPSA operates in the De Rust and Oudtshoorn area, Western Cape , impacting many hundreds of children and their communities. YOUPSA is the only education non-profit in the area. YOUPSA's awaken the creativity, potential and purpose of South African children and youth. YOUPSA nurtures and grows social-emotional skills, problem-solving, creative and critical thinking skills in disadvantaged children and youth, skills that are neither developed in the schools nor in their communities. We do this through our weekly Literacy & Afterschool Enrichment programmes for children in Grades 3 – 12 on farms and in townships. The vast majority of people in this area are very poor, living mainly in squatter camp conditions. The children that YOUPSA works with are the children of the citrus and vegetable farm laborers. Education and literacy levels in these communities are very low. There is widespread alcohol and drug abuse and domestic violence. A large ...