Youth Media Movement

The Youth Media Movement initiates and manages various media development projects aimed at empowering youth in Mitchells Plain and surrounding areas. The YMM currently operates from Glendale High School in Mitchells Plain.
The Youth Media Movement is an organization registered as a section 21 company in 2008. The purpose of our organization is to develop and implement media training and media projects within the community of Mitchell’s Plain and surrounding areas, with specific focus on developing youth in our schools and communities.
Poverty and marginalization constitute a serious problem for our community. The aim of our organization is to provide our people with opportunities to develop their skills and empower themselves. We seek to enable them to start using the tools of digital media in order to tell their own stories, stories that can play a healing role towards creating better communities. We are aware that we can’t train everyone, but we strongly believe that we can reach a large number of youth and in this way contribute to make a significant difference. The launch of the Cape Town Community TV. The channel, which has just started broadcasting on the 1st of October 2008, aims to enable the people of Cape Town to participate in the production of TV programs for community building purposes. Individuals, companies and civil society groups are given the chance to join in the programming and production activities.We immediately felt very connected to this initiative, because we deeply believe in the importance of providing TV access to all the different social groups and communities, in particular to those whose voices that tend to be marginalized or unheard. The recent dramatic events, which took place in Johannesburg and Cape Town and developed into a terrifying xenophobic crisis, highlighted once more the economic, social and cultural struggle that South Africa is facing in a post-apartheid era. Television and media generally can play a crucial role in support of the democratic process through socially relevant projects.