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Mawethu Zita is currently a Regional Focal Point of Southern Africa 2009-2011, Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GYCA). He was a National Focal Point of South Africa for 2008. He received a funding from GYCA and became a Project Manger to implement a Youth Leadership Project at Ikhwezi Lokusa Wellness Centre, a HIV/AIDS NGO in East London, Eastern Cape.
He is self motivated to be the Global Young Leader. He is a South African young male born in Port Elizabeth of the Eastern Cape Province known as one of the poorest provinces in South Africa.
Recently he attended the Global Youth Summit, Bamako Mali and was shortly after that invited to Robben Island UNAIDS High Level Commission Meeting in Cape Town, where he was honoured as one in 9 young people globally as a UNAIDS Youth Commisioner on AIDS Prevention.....
Mawethu also work for Disabled People South Africa as the Provincial Youth Coordinator for Eastern and Western Cape provinces on Disability and HIV and AIDS; Inclusive Education; School to work Transition; and Disability and Media Programmes.
He is a very gregarious and appreciating individual who is extremely dedicated to the efficient and reliable growth of the young people. His aim is to efficiently and carefully impact the minds of young people, enabling them to see themselves as catalysts, to create significant change within their lives, homes, countries and globally by extension the world and thus activate and birth the talents, gifts and resources they naturally enjoy.
Educationally Mawethu is having a background in Motor Mechanics, Technical Drawing, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Project Management, He believes that education is one of the key to develop young people, but if others are not capable in making it through education, there is other positive ways of constructing their lives for better. He was awarded as a brilliant student in the Electronic Commerce 1 in MS FrontPage Web Design in ICT, Excellence in Youth Education and Community Outreach, received a trophy as the best dedicated Peer Educator of Walter Sisulu University (WSU) in 2004. He received a Merit certification From Family and Marriage Society of South Africa (FAMSA) youth education programme in Dynamic Involvement in the Community in 2005. He completed the year practical course requirement associated with Peer Education Programme in WSU in 2005, a special recognition by WSU Campus Radio in contribution in a special peer education radio programme aimed at educating students within WSU and outside community in 2006. Lastly he received excellence certificate in Coordinating Youth Educational program and Participation in Community fundraising by ILWC.
Recently he was selected to serve as a Workshop Proposal Reviewer on Leadership and Accountability Development and Community Skills Development for the XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010), Vienna, Austria, 18-23 July 2010, starting - February 2010 to March 2010. In November 2009, Mawethu attended and participated in the Global Youth Consultation on Masculinities, Violence against Women & HIV, Geneva, Switzerland UNAIDS Headquarters, November 2009. He is the Co-Founder of the Progress Association of South Africa (PASA) - National Youth Network established late 2009. He is currently the Ikhwezi Lokusa Wellness Centre (ILWC) Community Outreach Project Officer, The Southern Africa Regional Focal Point of Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GYCA), Project Manager for the Housing Needs for HIV and AIDS infected and affected Research Project, this is the partnership project between ILWC and Department of Housing with support from Niagara College, Canada and WSU (appointed unemployed graduates as Field Researchers and Research Professors to assist in the data validation, transformation and analysis). He was the 2009 delegate of the Youth Parliament to address the needs of young people in the Eastern Cape in Youth, Health and wellbeing of the youth programmes in the new National Youth Development Agency. He served as a Steering Committee in the 1st Pre-Youth lekgotla Conference of the SA 4th AIDS conference in 2009.
Mawethu was able to achieve all the above due to the voluntarism of 3 years at ILWC, employed at the same centre for another 2 years, served as the National Focal Point in 2008 for GYCA, Volunteered as the Youth Educational Domestic Violence Facilitator at FAMSA organization for 1 year, he became the Project Manager for the Other Half project that consisted of two programmes named Circle Dialogue men’s programme and Driven Force youth drama group (as a Co-coordinator and Artistic Director) for 2 years , was trained in Forum Theatre of Oppressed by Mixed Company in Toronto and Management and Skills Development training by Niagara College, in Canada. He was a recipient of funding to attend 3rd Conference on Peer Education, HIV/AIDS and became the presenter of the Skills Building Workshop using Forum Theatre, his topic was called “It’s Your Live, Live it!!!!!” in Nairobi, Kenya. He was invited to attend the Global Citizens Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, 2009.
I have read, watched and became informed by the history of 1976 of the youth struggle in South Africa who fought to be educated in their own understanding language, access of better education and freedom in their own country. Indeed the youth struggle have not yet ended, instead all race are either infected and affected by poverty, domestic violence, drugs and alcohol abuse, HIV and AIDS but I believe that I am amongst those selected by God to serve my community. I believe in the theme says: We are the youth, the problem and the solution of our challenges.
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