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I-SIMA: Intsika - Social Investment Management Anchor
Background & drivers of the work I-SIMA does
A large percentage of the South African population is youth. Some of these youth find themselves marginalised due to a combination of various reasons. Unemployment and poverty are the biggest socio-economic challenges in South Africa. With idle time, and low levels of self-belief in what they can achieve on their own youth are often led to destructive behaviours such as crime, drugs and alcohol abuse, as well as early pregnancies. To turn this situation around, it is I-SIMA's conviction that it is vital to have an appropriately prepared and resilient youth community that is educated, appropriately skilled and entrepreneurial to take care of themselves as well as drive the economy.
I-SIMA believes that there is forgone potential in Youth, and this potential could be better diverted into more constructive ways starting within their communities. I-SIMA subscribes to the models of leveraging the resources of who have more to uplift the more vulnerable members of society in a manner that the pillars of sustainability are built during the periods when social development projects and/or interventions are implemented.
"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future." Franklin DRoosevelt
I-SIMA intends to facilitate engagements that are locally grounded, meant to bring about meaningful and long-lasting results to complex problems of youth disorientation / unemployment / ill-used social grants / marginalisation in communities through its creative and participative programming that promotes and amplifies engaged collaborations among government, business, marginalized youth and communities. Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) models form the launch pad from which the community engagements would enhance the sustainability of the envisaged outcomes.
