Step up and become a change-maker
The youth of SA is being challenged to use their power to create change.
AS the 2017 cohort of South African matriculants live out their final school days and consider their future options as young adults, they are being challenged by ‘You have the power to create change’, which is a popular social media campaign to show the country that they have the power to create change.
SACAP (The South African College of Applied Psychology), in partnership with Brent Lindeque of Good Things Guy, launched the vlogging campaign ‘You have the power to create change’ to emphasise to young South Africans that they have great value to offer the country. One of the SACAP students, Tintswalo Mashele (21), is also a Glenvista resident who has also got on board to reach out to the community on October 9.
Change for a better SA
The campaign consists of four on-the-road adventures with Lindeque and a carload of youngsters creating change in big and small ways, Mashele being one of them. The students have been visiting a variety of charity and school programmes to lend a hand and challenging other young South Africans to get actively involved in their own communities to create change.
CEO of SACAP, Lance Katz said: “As a proudly South African higher education institution with high appeal to talented young adults, we believe that this campaign will ignite the interest of those who want to invest their talents and skills in creating a better South Africa for all. We believe that the campaign will resonate with young South Africans who feel the urge to step up and go forward into the world of work as bona fide change-makers.”
The fast-paced campaign, wherein each vlog Brent and the change-makers visit at least three different community initiatives, highlights that doing good feels good and is easy. In Pretoria and Johannesburg the change-makers spent time in the boxing ring with youth from the Fight with Insight project and travelled to Pretoria to play with the learners from the Chrysalis Preschool and visited The South African Council for the Blind’s Optima College.
Tintswalo spoke of how they delivered a birthday cake to a birthday girl who doesn’t usually get to celebrate her birthday. They visited the Lisakhanya Ikusasa Reading Club in Alex to help learners with their homework and reading skills and finally joined a drumming circle with the elderly at the Park Care Centre.
More about Tintswalo
Tintswalo was born and raised in Alberton and then relocated with her family to Oakdene and has now been a Glenvista resident for about a decade. She told the CHRONICLE how SACAP started the create change initiative when she was still in high school and she has also been involved in helping a children’s home in Soweto.
“SACAP is a community-based college and they integrate learning with work and I was happy to be a part of the campaign with Brent to be able to go into communities and help people while studying. This was like a practical for us as part of our studies and was great field work,’ said Tintswalo.
She began her studies with SACAP last year and spoke of how the field work incorporates a lot of charity work. Her passion lies in helping people and spending quality time with people of different backgrounds. This also contributes to her studies.
Watch more from the outreach earlier this year:
For any matriculant who believes they have the power to create change and is interested in the field of psychology and counselling, SACAP offers a wide range of specialist degree, postgraduate, diploma and certificate qualifications and a one-of-a-kind, person-centred approach to learning: small and interactive classes; expert practitioner educators; academic rigour and applied skills combined with work-integrated learning. Registration for 2018 term one closes at the end of January 2018. For further information, visit www.sacap.edu.za
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