Enter the Young Community Shapers competition and stand a chance to win for your community project.
Entries are now open for young community shapers, between the ages of 16 and 26, who run valid and well-established community projects for the benefit of people in their community.
Running every year for the past 17 years, the Young Community Shaper competition wants to identify, acknowledge and celebrate the work that these young people are doing in their communities.
Each candidate has to fill in an entry form and write an essay, of no more than 300 words, describing their project and how it empowers the community.
The entrant’s project must fit into one of two categories:
- Social upliftment such as Aids and drug counselling, feeding schemes, cultural projects, nursing, and others.
- Skills transfer where candidates invest their time teaching skills and knowledge to others in the community.
Entries close on 10 July. Afterwards a strict judging process begins where organisers work through the entries and select nine finalists. The organisers will then go on a road show across the country to verify and film each of these finalists. The finals take place on 25 to 29 August at a gala event.
The winning young community shaper gets R60 000 towards their project to build and sustain the work that they are doing in their community. The runner up wins R30 000 and the other finalists get R10 000 each.
Last year, Bulelani Nameka was the Young Community Shaper and won R60 000, which he used to expand his project to help 120 Khayelitsha pupils.
If you are eligible to enter, fill in an entry form from Daily Sun, visit youngcommunityshaper.com or email entries to [email protected].
