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The impact of our project on the economy and social life is immense in that the costs that are attached to violent activities will go down, the police, the prisons, and other law enforcement agents will have less incidents. Also the social amenities will be less strained as  the people we train who were not employed or in education will  be  able to get into work  through. Also through mentoring and stable family relationships families will be able to thrive. Many of the women [parents] also get back into the work after our courses as they regain their confidence, We work with women more than men because many of the parents in our group are women. Also the two co- facilitators for SFSC are women.
Many of the discussion centre on developing self esteem, so that it can be imparted to children.  Some of the courses help women to discover how to live in violence free, mutually respectful and un-controlling environment.
.  B y so doing they become a productive member of the society. In view of the above the benefit system  is less strained

Other specific Benefits are

Youth ablaze and Business Start up
Primary  Benefits
hances youth’s self-esteem, sense of safety, relationship skills, and ability to solve conflicts non-violently. The course does the following-: Enhances Self worth
Aide’s maturity
Helps conflict management
Helps anger management
Helps decision making skills
Helps to become a team player
Improves social skills and confidence
Helps leadership skills
Mentoring helps training and development
Skills learnt improve sense of  capabilities  It is expected that at the end of the Two weeks individuals will begin steps towards gaining employment or decide to return to  education and be  integration into larger society as a responsible member
Progression expected is -:
Some will enter college
Others will work with skills they have acquired
Others will continue working with us as volunteers to impart other youth
Some others we will help to look for jobs and mentor them to keep the job.
Finally some we will  get  professional training, While some will start their own businesses .

Secondary benefit Breaking down Barriers Like:

Society Stereotype
Parental abdication, abuse and neglect
Illiteracy
Gang culture
Predisposition to Violence

SFSC Benefit
Primary benefit
Develop Positive Parenting Skills, increase Confidence and self- esteem of parents Understand boundary –setting with their children
The course aims to help parents to:
®Develop Positive Parenting Skills
®Increase their Confidence and self- esteem
®Help their children, build self esteem and develop positive behaviour patterns
®Understand boundary –setting with their children
®Explore Family, religious and cultural values
®Achieve Positive changes in family relationships, over time, which provide support and guidance to their
Ensures that structures are effective in engaging a broad cross section of people from within the local community and result in real and positive change children
Secondary benefit
Strengthen existing ways of bringing people together within local communities and supporting the development of formal and informal structures

Networking

We are the led organisation for East of England Social Enterprises {faith based network}
We bring together partnerships that will forward the individual aspirations of the member organisations. The networking group open up access into the community, using the unique outreach available to faith based groups. The result  is that  each social enterprise has added value to what they are doing. I.e. a group doing youth work will be able to tap into access to a larger number of youth through the network group members.
We also intend to source for funds as a group to enable us affect common goals with diverse contributions of all group members.

A bit of history on the network {Excerpt from Social Enterprise East of England Magazine; March edition]
“The group was Started by Titi Oluwadare of Gem Ventures. On entering  Social enterprise , she saw  a vacuum in the faith based sector and she felt with challenges peculiar to the faith based sector of social enterprises , they needed to come together to sort themselves  out together.
In addition It was realised that faith groups have possibly more contact with the community than most social enterprises. It is therefore possible to engage this unique privilege to effect social change and development.”