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One of the most thrilling features of the school has been the ease with which it can adapt to the changing currents of South African society. In fact, it's as extraordinary as it is telling that a philosophy borne amongst animals, trees, an ancient culture and an understanding of the interrelationship, the symbiosis of man and nature, has become so relevant to people living in the 21st century.
It is testimony to the enduring wisdom of what the Wilderness Leadership School stands for that today, in the Year 2005, the school is being called upon to spread its word amongst the disadvantaged people of yesteryear's apartheid society.
Since the coming of democracy in 1994, we have been particularly proactive in helping expose such people to the wilderness experience. The way the school has gone about this is by formulating a social responsibility programme which comprises of the following:
 Sponsored Community Development Trail |
| One of our earliest such trails was the Kwandengezi Open Door Crisis Centre where the community themselves selected six unit development leaders, people actively involved in counseling people suffering from traumas such as HIV and rape victims as well as providing the catalyst for the upliftment of the communities they serve. |
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| Wilderness Guide Training Program |
| The training programme for wilderness guides involves sourcing such people from local communities in KwaZulu Natal while funding for the year-long training programme is being sourced from corporate sponsorship. The community trail itself is a new development whereby we identify community youth leaders who will undertake a trail. Their experience will clearly filter back into their communities. They will also prove to be the major source of our future trail guides. |
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| LoveLife Program |
Of particular importance to the School has been our recent involvement with the LoveLife programme, a global undertaking teaching people (in our case young South Africans) to live with hope, to be positive and to make conscious choices as a frontline strategy in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
The School has recently entered into a partnership with LoveLife, South Africa's national HIV prevention campaign for youth to assist with an outreach and support programme to influence and develop leadership amongst young South Africans towards nurturing a new generation committed to both the people and the environment.
A critical component of LoveLife is its 1000-strong groundBreaker leadership and youth development programme. groundBreakers are 18-25 year olds, otherwise unemployed, who are recruited into a year-long training and service corps. These young people are based in public clinics, youth centres and community-based organizations throughout South Africa and participate in modular and in-service training aimed at enabling them to implement "loveLifestyle" in surrounding schools.
LoveLife and The Wilderness Leadership School's vision is to enable 1000 groundBreakers to participate in a five-day wilderness experience, as an integral part of their year-long development programme. In so doing, we seek to:
Within five years, enable 5000 young people from every part of South Africa to experience the Leadership Programme
Develop a new leadership of young people committed to safeguarding their future - both personal and their environment
Use the national infrastructure of LoveLife and facilitated peer-based interaction of groundBreakers with hundreds and thousands of teenagers to promote the principles of environmental conservation in communities across South Africa
Nurture a broad-based environmental constituency to safeguard our environmental heritage in the future, through both national and widely disseminated local leadership. |
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| Wilderness Leadership School Building Upgrade Project |
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