Cape Town, South Africa
- November 3rd - 14th, 2007
The YAP Mission
To provide a global and innovative learning experience
for middle school students that foster hope, a heart of compassion, and
life skills, which promotes a foundation for selfless service.
Our Vision
Samaritan's Feet's vision for the Youth Ambassador Program
is to offer scholarships to middle school students that provide an opportunity
to travel to impoverished areas of Africa or other continents. Our aim is to
positively affect the students' perspective on life as they display selfless
service through cultural, educational, sport, life-skills, and humanitarian
activities; exchanging ideas and talents among diverse groups of people.
In 2007, six students from the Charlotte Mecklenburg School system participated
in the program. Students had an opportunity to attend class with South African
students. They visited shanty communities, the South African parliament, an AIDS
orphanage, open markets, banks, and the apartheid museum. The students fed the
homeless population and helped to distribute shoes to more than one thousand
people.
Shoe of Hope Relief
Distributions:
Cypress Elementary School -
400 Pairs of shoes
Crystalis Academy - 350 Pairs of
shoes
Macassa Boys Home - 150 Pairs
of shoes
Ottery Reformatory - 150 Pairs
of shoe
We believe that YAP can ultimately change
the course of a student's life as 21st Century learning skills are
applied. With mentoring in place, the projected outcome is
students who are now prepared to interact and meet the real world
head-on in high school, college, and thereafter.