Posted by Olya Cherevko, Youth Impact Manager
This month Youth Impact started classes again with 30 students applying for the program. We decided to begin with activities focused on "Building Trust" and "Team Work" .
Building trust
Most of the youth had a very difficult time trusting each other at the beginning, but with each activity they were able to increase their trust. Since betrayal is a theme in their lives, many of the youth are guarded, and have learned to rely on themselves. They gave good examples of who should and should not be trusted.
Team Work
Team work was a new concept for the youth who has been told by society that they need to think of themselves to survive in life. When we did team work activities, the youth were not very successful. After a discussion on what makes a good team, we did these activities again and they worked
together better. Youth themselves came to conclusions of why it did not work the first time. One of the participants had a very good example based on her experience as a soccer player. She said, "To win we have to work together otherwise we will lose."
