Sport Organization Combining, Culture Education and Recreation
Background
Arise was established in 2007 with its main objective to alleviate unemployment within poorer communities. Arise launched its program in Manenberg in 2007 and spread out to 16 different communities. In 2010 Arise was registered as an NPO.
Arise broadened its focus to two additional sectors in order to provide holistic services to the communities that they serve.
Arise is divided into 3 focus areas.
Mission
Our aim is to maximize the opportunity for learners to face the challenges of their everyday lives by using Football and Education as a platform for young people to achieve their educational and professional goals.
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Whilst NGO’s are doing exceptional work within their respective communities many of them lack the skills to govern the organisation properly. This can result in huge financial losses as well as incapacitation to secure valuable funding. Additionally mismanagement and lack of financial controls causes huge internal problems. Arise assists Community Organisations to implement sound governance practices within their Organisation
Most participants come from very poor household. Hence Arise included a feeding scheme that provides these young people with a meal at our inter community tournaments and weekly training sessions in Manenberg.
Kopanong Education is a cutting edge private affordable learning social enterprise in South Africa, which integrates technology alongside traditional bricks and mortar school teaching tools. The business provides a 10-month full-time schooling solution for learners, who have either dropped out or haven’t completed their Grade 12, and want to rewrite their final examination and pass a second time around.
Arise trained 240 coaches during the period 2012-2014 in the following communities;
The project’s major objective is to establish and/or support youth development initiatives in selected Communities where football education and training are combined with various other development activities.
We currently offer a highly dynamic short course in Small business Development training. The training is not only theoretical, but assists the participants to register and implement their businesses.
To capacitate community coaches that will ensure more skillful and empowered coach including a monthly mentor ship program for monitoring and evaluation purposes.
Young people often struggle to find employment because they do not have the necessary skills or resources to find employment or to be employable. Arise Offers Administration and Retail training to alleviate such obstacles and to provide a platform for employability through training and job placements.
Development is not an event , but an ongoing sustainable process.
