Eastleigh Exhibition Week Activities
(Eastleighwood Founder second left)
Training of creative
writers
Eastleigh
Youth Forum has been holding two days training before exhibitions. The reason
for this being is that EYF wanted to guide the youth to tilt their minds
towards asset creation and to make them deviate from total dependency.
The other
reason is to promote youth empowerment
in terms of improving employability and entrepreneurship skills, where they are
trained in what
they are good at, for example if one is a musician Eastleigh youth forum
creates concerts for them, if they are actors EYF also creates film boot camp
etc. additionally they are trained on how to write articles as well as from
being grass root journalist to international journalist.
The training
program is unconditional and beneficiaries / youth are free to attend and use
the knowledge to better their lives. Since the youth were identified as
vulnerable to radicalization, the assumption is that Majority of them lack
skills to create employment opportunities for themselves nor having the
connections they need to get employment opportunities.
However EYF
Director Iman Burhan carry out a Beneficiary / youth contact monitor and he has
established that at least 60% of the trainees have benefited from the training.
EYF uses its connections to invite
qualified mentors to mentor the participants (youth) which gives them
the opportunity to meet the right people
who can help them do well since most talented people in our society lack such
connections. Other than
that these mentors train them on P/CVE.
There is an
outcry in this community regarding youth unemployment and skills to help them
improve their lives and EYF has introduced this concept to reduce poverty by
giving them knowledge,skills and also tilt the youth
attitude of total dependency and adopt none - violent behaviors to support
themselves.
There is
need for this trainings from time to time so that they can learn from this
mentors, and get the knowledge they need to support themselves financially
Exhibition program
line – up first day
The 5th Eastleigh Exhibition week was held at
California resource center on the 13th and 14th December
2019 from 10 AM to 4 PM.
The exhibition week started on the 13th of Friday
at 9.00 a.m. with opening prayers. After prayers religious leaders, government
officials, donors, entrepreneurs and company selected directors among other
voices were able to give an overview of what they do, thereafter they gave
motivational talks to the audience and messages to promote peace, peaceful
coexistence and social cohesion among communities.
In the afternoon creative artist, poets, actors and
musicians were invited on stage where they were able to display their talents
to the audience in attendance.
Video shooting was also part of the event to capture peace messages,
business success and challenges. The day ended at 5.00 P.M with a closing
ceremony and prayers.
Event Program line up
for the second day.
The second day being
our final day we started at 9.00
a.m. With opening prayers, followed by
open mic for artist, poet’s rappers and singers who show cased their talents.
After a wonderful performance by this artist, velli
proceeded by hosting the airtime challenge and a tea break thereafter.
The M.C. then invited a group of artist who performed
traditional Somali music and dance
which was followed by food competition where participants were picked
randomly from the crowd and competed against each other to eat large quantities
of food in a short time period of 10 seconds.
We held a comedy session where comedians performed in front
of the audience giving humorous stories and jokes.
Upon completion, businesses and companies were awarded
certificates followed by a closing prayer.
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