By Mark Slessenger | Operations Director: Message Trust
Dear friend,
We would just like to say thank you for recently supporting our Global Giving campaign. We are pleased to announce we reached the Global Giving fundraising target! This means that the Message Entrepreneurship Programme (MEP) is now on the Global Giving platfom and can open up further opportunties to support our work amongst young men in prison.
The first year of MEP has been amazing in many ways, however, the most exciting thing has been to witness the amazing growth in the young men we work with.
Just yesterday we witnessed one of our young men give a powerful inspirational speech on "the power of appreciation" - on the day we had 3 guests, all who are entrepreneurs and they were blown away by the speech and the maturity of our students. To see the growth in this young man as he performed the speech was encouraging and one of the reasons why we do what we do.
We are aware it is a difficult time economically and that many of you have given to MEP before, so we would like to thank you for your support and sacrfice in assisting our cause in breaking the chains of crime, gangsterism and unemployment in South Africa.
Today we will be interviewing new students for our 2nd year MEP programme. Our MEP team has exciting plans for 2016 and we will share these in due course.
For now please do check out our website at www.message-mep.org and also do check out our blog page which is contirbuted to by our students.
I have attached a couple of pictures from our recent business model competition and graduation day. It was a powerful day of celebration as we celebrated a wonderul year with our students and their families. One highlight was seeing one of our students Cane win the Business Model Competition. The amazing thing about this achievement was that just 3 months ago he could not speak in front of the class through a lack of self-belief and confidence. Cane blew all our judges away and to see the growth in this young man and his hunger to change and leave a life of crime and gangs has been inspirational to many.
We appreciate all your support and thanks for helping us be a part of the Global Giving platform.
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