Welcome to our Youth Empowerment pages
After School and Homework Club
Education has always been one of the bedrocks of human endeavour and development. Obtaining quality education is a considerable achievement and should be a goal for all. Whilst government has been and is still playing a prominent role, other stakeholders such as not-for-profit organisations and the community at large must take active part and all efforts must be well coordinated to achieve the desirable end result of delivering the best possible outcomes for children, young people and their families.
The fact that efforts by all concerned with educating young children should be complementary cannot be overemphasised. The Oasis' ASAH vision aims to explore and annex the opportunities that exist between the school, government, parents and voluntary organisations to ensure that student's individual educational needs are followed and met. This can only be achieved in a wider sense through innovative programmes and projects focused at providing tailored supplementary support for individual students particularly those from disadvantaged areas of the city.
Oasis ASAH's laudable initiative aims to enhance students' attainment, achievement and progression. The project is targeted at students in key stage 2, key stage 3 and key stage 4.
In addition to contributing to achieving individually, it is also capable of boosting Wolverhampton's ability to compete nationally and possibly exceed national average in literacy, numeracy and science.
Oasis' ASAH is currently supported by qualified and experienced mainstream teachers (volunteers) with excellent reputation for quality, resourcefulness and friendly orientation toward teaching and learning. The Club is capable of generating employment for teaching assistants and individuals in related field coupled with the provision of opportunities for further and continuous professional development.
Anti-truancy and extracurricular programme
The prospect of a city [or nation] is determined by the quality of its future leaders and there is no doubt that the children and young people of today are the leaders of tomorrow.
Oasis of Love believes that building the children is building the city. One of the major problems confronting our city and the UK in general is the attitude of young people to work; and their inability to sustain employment is another issue that has been a major cause for concern amongst employers. There is every likelihood that there is a relationship between none attendance at school and non attendance of young people at and/or poor attitude to work. It is probable that the former is the precursor of the latter.
In supplementing government efforts in its commitment to raise educational standards and improve attendance, particularly amongst vulnerable children and young people, Oasis of Love as part of its vision and commitment to community development has a number of anti-truancy and extra curriculum programmes that are envisaged to alleviate truancy problems in a number of disadvantaged areas of the city. Such programmes aim at inculcating time management, attendance culture and appropriate work ethics in the minds of Wolverhampton children and young people through coaching, encouragement, rewards and engaging them in various extracurricular activities.
Oasis of Love aims to engage and where possible recruit, both on voluntary and paid basis, parents of children and young people in this category because their involvement is crucial in achieving the desired goal. Some of the programmes will work with families for whom education has not been a main concern hence possibly achieving a dual goal of encouraging adults to imbibe a lifestyle of life-long learning, subsequently improving attendance of vulnerable young people in schools. Consequently this will help in reducing the number of young people who leave school without qualifications and skills that will enable them secure a stable future.
The various programmes and initiatives Oasisof Love has in the pipeline are aimed towards provision of opportunities for children and young people to participate in safe free-time activities and leisure with the view of encouraging regular school attendance and the development of right attitude towards work.
David's Protégées
By combining the rigoursof physical fitness through various sporting activities and the discipline of character building, we do entry level leadership training through step and dance, Miming, acting etc.
If you can act, sing, rap, write poetry, write stories, and want to use your gift to bless others, this is for you.
Mothers and Fathers in Action
This coaching and mentoring project is designed to provide Mothers and Fathers with a support mechanism in which they will be able to share ideasand fellowship with each other about effective parenting; as well as allow parents an avenue to teach the younger generation – age eight and up – the basic principles of leadership, responsibility and productive, lasting relationships.