Youth Projects and Workshops

We develop and deliver, often in collaboration, advocacy and capacity-building projects for refugee-background youth which seek to build on their unique strengths and potential. 

Current Projects

Youth Leadership Project 2010

A youth leadership project which aims to harness the energy and motivation of active and committed young people in refugee-background communities by providing training and support in their development as young leaders.

If you'd like to find out a bit more detail about the project, you can check out a presentation here.

If you're a youth worker and would like to volunteer as a mentor, click here for more info.

If you're a young leader and would like to apply, click here for the application form.

Past Projects

Yunited Voicez 2009

A youth media project which used media to build the skills and confidence of young people from refugee-backgrounds. From June to November 2009 we worked with Wellington Refugees As Survivors and over 20 volunteers to support seven young people through the project.

The evaluation, including project outline, is available here.

You can see the amazing work the young people produced on the project blog at yunitedvoicez.tumblr.com.

Youth Making Change 2009

Youth Making Change, or the YMCs, were a group of refugee-background youth advocates who worked with the Youth Development Coordinator to identify key issues for refugee-background youth and then develop a project to address one. They wanted to support refugee-background young people when they first arrive in New Zealand, feeling that this was the hardest time for a young person. They ran a welcome event for young people in December 2009; and produced a short documentary about their lives, which aimed to show that although things are tough when you first get here, they do get easier.

Youth Making Change in 2009 was: Makuei Aken, Hajar Ali, Sandra Buless, Ali Hamid, Augustine John, Mohamed Mahyup, Feven Michael, Hamdi Yusuf, David Hakizimana, Matthew Phillip.