The Action Volunteers Africa (AVA) model illustrates volunteering as a key to unlocking the future potential of youth. The AVA experience equips youth with the confidence, skills, experience and networks they need to actively engage in building a better South Africa.
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2016 - 20172017 - 20182018 - 20192019 - 20202020 - 20212021 - 2022In 2012 Action Volunteers
Africa (AVA) was set up as the CSI initiative of Action Appointments, a
well-established NGO recruitment agency. Under the guidance of the Director, Lisa
Garson, who has 20+ years of development recruitment experience, AVA became an independent NPO.
AVA ran a pilot programme in 2013, placing 30
volunteers into a variety of NGOs. Due to the immense success of this
intervention, where 90% of the youth progressed to a new opportunity, in 2014
AVA worked with 98 volunteers, again achieving very high progression rates. In
2015 AVA expanded again, running several projects and co-creating, in
partnership with the Western Cape government, their flagship YearBeyond gap
year programme.
The pilot of the LiteraSEA
project was also set up in 2015, in partnership with Shine, Edupeg and AVA.
In a short time AVA has
had a great impact on the 300+ young people who have volunteered on our
programmes. Over 90% of the youth who have passed through our programmes have
managed to secure further opportunities for work or full time study and are
firmly on the path towards sustainable careers.
The AVA project has also
had a positive impact on the capacity of the partner organisations and schools,
allowing them to expand or extend their impact at no extra cost. AVA has played
an active role in advocating for the large scale use of volunteering as a means
to address our growing youth unemployment.
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