Project details

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ACADEMY
OF
INSPIRATION
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Title

ACADEMY OF INSPIRATION

The project owner

Lisa Ottevanger

Location

  • Cape Town
  • South Africa

Goal summary

To train 50 at-risk youth in creative entrepreneurship and develop their creative talents and skills, enabling them to make their own livelihood.

Project summary

This project will help these young people address their behavioral issues while helping to improve their self-confidence. They come from a social background without much creative stimulation, and have had few chances in life to go beyond the perceived boundaries of their social and economic situation.

How

Participants discover and develop design and entrepreneurial skills through inspirational workshops, conceptual workshops, design workshops, co-creation workshops, brand identity workshops, and marketing and publicity workshops.

Beneficiaries

  • 50
  • Motivated youth at risk between 16 and 18 years old with behavioural issues and a lack of self-confidence, who come from a social background without much stimulation, who have had few chances in life but do have dreams and potential. Possibly they are for
  • Mixed

Why (Project owners drive)

I have founded Ubuntu Streetkids Foundation together with my best friend Renske Hofman in 2006. As theater directors we strive to give streetkids world wide a voice and together with local organisations we want to make sure they will make it in life!

Relation between the project partner (excecution) and the project owner (fundraising)

Non-Profit Organisation - Applicant is Identical to the Contact Person

Budget

€9,999

Phases

  1. Talent development

    • - inspiration workshop €250 - conceptual thinking workshop €250 - design workshop €450 - making of designs for theatre performance (flyers, posters, costumes and props) €2383
    • €3,333
    • 16

  2. Working in the field

    • - workshop brand identity €250 - workshop marketing and publicity €250 - workshop co-creation in assignment of a client the participants conceptualize and execute an art and design project. €2833
    • €3,333
    • 16

  3. Being an entrepeneur

    • In this phase the participants individually or in groups find and create their own project within the field of social and creative entrepeneurship. Budget is €66 per participants x 50 = €3333
    • €3,333
    • 16