018 Golf is a Non Violence project that seeks to raise
awareness and advocate for Non Violence through a Violence Intervention Program
(VIP), that is being administered by a Public Charitable Trust called PAYT
Trust.
To remain
human and live-able knowledge societies will have to be societies of shared
knowledge. Building knowledge societies is directly linked to technology and education;
this is the views of Mahikeng’s Social Entrepreneur and Founder of PAYT Trust
Lerato Mosimane who is upbeat about the upcoming 018 Golf Campaign taking place
during Child Protection Week.
PAYT Trust
serves to empower young people through an educational and industrial
development program that ranges from vocational training, advocacy, career
guidance, edu-tours and digital publishing of African content, amongst many
initiatives. 018 Golf is a fund raising benefit that will assist in creating
seed funds for research, studies and educational material that address violence
related issues. The non violence campaign through its VIP will channel
information and empower victims of violence towards breaking the cycle. 018
Golf is about a culture of consciousness and recourse by promoting sport, recreational
and alternative lifestyle orientation that are aligned with optimizing
wellness.
“If a
culture of sharing can enable a culture of learning, a culture of peace is
easily attainable and new possibilities of an advanced and well off society can
be projected as well as achieved.” Lerato
Mosimane
018 Golf
will kick-starts at Leopard Park Golf Club on 24 May with a Golf Clinic,
followed by a Self Defense seminar taking place on Africa Day 25th
May and the campaign ends with a Golf Challenge on 31st May.
As a program
that advances education and directs young people towards various opportunities, PAYT Trust has adopted a policy for open schools and virtual universities or higher learning programs that represent new institutional models. Knowledge is a common good – and ICT supported education can and must contribute to making knowledge more freely available to more people particularly in rural communities.
PAYT Trust
is constructing an open dialogue through projects such as 018 Golf, that serve to leverage on modern day
applications that assist to inform and model the ideal through discovery. It is
through discovery particularly self discovery that people are able to achieve
great things including conquering fears. The social capital of this generation and
the next lies in knowledge and the success of any society lies in harnessing
that knowledge.
