17 Goals – Project overview

YoUbuntu 2020 is the follow-up project of YoUbuntu 2018. It is a youth exchange between South African and German young adults that empowers them to live more sustainably and to consider jobs in the field of green entrepreneurship. The focus of YoUbuntu lies on the Sustainable Development Goals and skills development. In 2020, the emphasis will lie on SDG8 (decent jobs and economic growth). Throughout the project, the group keeps on reviving the Ubuntu-philosophy – I am because we are - and represents a true global friendship.

The project will bring together young people from Germany, South Africa and Zimbabwe. They will meet one time in South Africa (Bloemfontein) and one time in Germany (Nuremberg) for 21 days. The objective is to foster the participation of young people as 'agents for change' for promoting the issues of SDG 8: decent work and sustainable economic growth that all people and especially young people can benefit from. The participants will develop follow-up projects.

​The project has the aim to empower young people in the field of economical development and entrepreneurship. Youngsters from Germany and Malawi will cooperate to learn together, to gain skills and to exchange ideas. The will get to know the economical structures in their areas and will search solutions in order to improve employment situation and economic growth. Beside gaining knowledge we will work very practical, for example by developing sustainable pilot projects.

Im Rahmen dieses Begleitprojekts möchten wir uns als Verantwortliche aus beiden Ländern gerne zwei mal treffen um die Chance zu haben ein gut strukturiertes und für beide Seiten wertvolles Begegnungsprojekt auszuarbeiten. Wir möchten gerne innerhalb einer Woche in Deutschland und einer Woche in Malawi zunächst die Partnerorganisationen kennenlernen und uns lokal vernetzen. Weiter möchten wir alle Aspekte einer Jugendbegegnung zwischen den zwei Jugendgruppen besprechen. Es soll ganz konkret an den beiden Begegnungsprogrammen gearbeitet werden.