- Award Entered:
London Legacy Award
- Parent Organisation:
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- Project Host Nation:
Newham
- Overview of Project:
Capoeira Youth uses the Brazilian martial art and dance- Capoeira- to give disadvantaged young people a healthy and non violent alternative after and during school (PE). We work in the most deprived areas of London and in Bogota, Colombia (where we have our sister project) where the need for activities to help young people (aged 12-20) engage in positive, peaceful and drug free lifestyle is crucial.
Youth for Youth/Capoeira Youth run programmes where the idea/aim is to give young people an opportunity to make a healthy and productive choice about their life. These include:
1. Weekly Capoeira (martial arts, dance and music) classes with qualified instructors designed to quickly develop the young people’s confidence and physical skills and abilities.
2. Weekly key worksessions with the instructors and youth workers to offer mentoring and motivational support, including, team-building, resolving feelings of conflict and anger, understanding the effects of peer pressure, negotiation and conflict resolution skills and confidence and self-esteem
3. Drug awareness – understanding types of drugs, the effects of drugs and alcohol on the mind and body and how to minimise harm.
4. Healthy life choices – balanced diet, physical activity, emotional health and wellbeing, staying safe, opportunities for enjoyment and achievement.
We also look within our programme and the young people who "graduate" from our project to become involved as youth leaders and coaches themselves, and to pass on what they have learnt whilst being with our project.
In Newham, we work in partnership with Community Links (one of England's top 100 charities) and we also work with a PRU (New Directions) delivering PE sessions during school hours.
Since May 2008 we have worked successfully with over 200 young people in London and that number is ever increasing.
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: 22 Jun 2009 - 18:09 BST
I watched a presentation by CapoeiraYouth in Straford yesterday. Much like Flawless or Diversity. They are talented at both dance and martial arts these kids! The young people in this project seemed to have a great bond and invited other young people watching to try it out. It was a positive and innovative way of engaging young people. I hope they win.
: 21 Jun 2009 - 00:50 BST
CapoeiraYouth and YouthForYouth have brought unbelievable results to PRU NewLap in East Ham and the young people of the community. Not only has the staff managed to engage hard to reach youth during school hours but also invited them to their after school club. We have seen increased attendance, positive attitude and general improvement in socialising with other pupils since they stared gong to the CapoeiraYouth programmes. We wish CapoeiraYouth all the luck and hope that they will win this honour.
: 19 Jun 2009 - 11:18 BST
Huh! tru. powerful people behind this project. ... all the projects are great. wish they could all get suport and not have to compete for it.
: 18 Jun 2009 - 23:46 BST
This project its helping a lot ....i love capoeira...its my life ... i love this project because make me feel like a better person....
: 16 Jun 2009 - 13:42 BST
this competition is about people that knows about the project voting in this project because they believe in it 100% just like me. I believe in this project with all my heart because I know how it changed peoples lives.
: 12 Jun 2009 - 01:37 BST
a Life Changing Project...! just Amazing...