Wednesday, 2 October 2013

2013 Puketapapa Youth Leadership Summit

4 Religious traditions, 22 ethnicities, 12 community organisations all converging on Umu Puia Marae, Maraetai all passionate about uniting Mt Roskill's youth voice.The Puketapapa (Mt Roskill) Youth Leadership Summit is a project that i (michael) have co-ordinated for the past 3 years since its conception. The intention is to bring together aspiring young people from the Mt Roskill area to develop leadership and citizenship for the sake of the next generations of Mt Roskill.

This years theme was ACTION and it came with the bonus of two group who would form during the summit receiving $2,000 grant for a community project developed over the summit. These grants come from the local board youth fund in which we have "Puke up"grants for aspiring youth community projects. To start of the weekend we had Ronji Tanielu share his story and journey from a challenging up bringing to his life now as a registered lawyer and policy analyst for The Salvation Army. The rest of the weekend followed a project scoping template where groups where formed to develop local community projects for young people. This included workshops on leadership, project management, fiancees and marketing.

 Each group presented their project idea and the participants of the weekend then voted for the top two projects that deserved the grants, making this a truly youth led development project. the winers of the grants where:
 1) Kai Time: A cook book with stories to support recipes of different meals that represent cultures or traditions of Mt Roskill.
2) Roskill's Finest: Art gallery events that expose artistically talented Mt Roskill young people.

I have left this Youth Leadership Inspired and with alot of hope with such a strong bunch of young people who will lead our community into the future.

check out this link for short film developed of what went down on the weekend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B4KaEEeeqE



More Photos and info to come

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