New World Foundation Building a new world of hope, justice and peace

Broad life education

Our 2010 strategy development process identified as the most central and important focus area the facilitation of human development, “broad life education” and life skills training to address the multiple woundedness and social ills as a result of the apartheid past and the continued marginalization of the poor in South Africa. We believe that, to overcome the challenges and plant a seed of hope and restore human dignity, it is essential to facilitate broad life education and life skills programmes with a strong focus on self-development for the people NWF serves. Therefore, broad life education and life skills training will be part of every programme offered by NWF – including programmes in partnership with other organisations.

NWF believes that, to overcome the challenges and plant a seed of hope and restore human dignity, it is essential to facilitate broad life education and life skills programmes with a strong focus on self-development for the people NWF serves.

Our broad life education and training approach makes a clear distinction between skills and knowledge transfer on the one hand and attitudinal formation work on the other hand. Attitude is the key software of the mind and the energy that determines what we do with the skills and knowledge and tools we acquire.