YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
Empowering the poor from cradle to career
The Amandla Development is bringing together the resources needed to support 'cradle to career' development
The Amandla Development programme in Philippi, Cape Town, was founded by Scott Clarke, an American born of immigrant parents. Clarke graduated from Yale University and attributes his success to the support he received from his community and church. After graduation he began to pay his success forward into the lives of children in poor communities. "The inequities in the system make it extremely likely that a child born in a poor area, going to a poor school and not having access to a breadth of services, probably ends up staying in that area, not going to university and never making it beyond a certain income bracket," Clarke says. His ancestors were South African and in 2008 he moved to Cape Town to start Amandla Development, an NGO registered in SA and the US. He works in Philippi, a community that earlier in 2018 was a flashpoint for service delivery protests. He wants to help residents help themselves, instead of waiting for the government to provide. "I wish poverty did not hav...
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