Marginalized youth face a heightened risk of experiencing isolation, powerlessness, and encountering additional obstacles in realizing their full economic and personal potential. RespAct Project Weeks combine boxing techniques, role plays, communications and video work to empower children to initiate change in their neighborhoods. This fundraiser will sponsor 20 classrooms, composed of refugee and migrant children, to participate in RespAct's Project Week curriculum.
Refugee and migrant children are often funneled into under-resourced urban neighborhoods that face serious challenges with offering adequate emotional and academic support. Unattractive neighborhoods, limited public spaces and under-performing schools all contribute to low levels of social participation for young people, particularly those that are newer migrants to Germany.
Our project provides a safe, nurturing space for children to become the champions of their own narratives and neighborhoods by helping them realize their inherent power and potential. We integrate sports, role plays and video work exercises that are meant to strengthen self-confidence, improve communication skills and empower at-risk children to build both the skill sets and social capital that they need to initiate social change in their communities.
RespAct initiates a comprehensive thought process about social participation and community building. Project Weeks go beyond simply instilling a sense of civic duty by helping children develop the skills that they need to identify, cope, and address systemic barriers to success. We don't just teach children to be active-we teach them how to use democracy and collective action to get real results for their communities.
