Empowerment
They came to help at a medical outreach. Four months later, they graduated.
MedWHOLE does not run a queue. Empowerment is what happens after someone has been served — the point where receiving turns into contributing.
Young adults in these communities are not short of ability. They are short of a door.
Skills that pay, mentors who answer, and a reason to believe that the place you are from is worth building — those are harder to find than talent.
Every day pairs a hard skill with a human one.
Prototyping with resourcefulness. Costing with financial literacy. Pitching with public speaking. Deadlines with stress management.
That pairing is not decoration. A young person who can design but cannot stand up and explain their design has been half-trained.
- 01ComPartthe Community Participation Programme. Skills, mentorship and character formation for community volunteers.Learn more about ComPart
- 02Community Innovation Challengeyoung people from a community solving that community's problems, with grants for the strongest ideas.Learn more about Community Innovation Challenge
- graduates from the pioneer ComPart cohort
- 12
- learning streams: media, print and branding, public health
- 3
- training sessions completed by the first Public Health Ambassadors
- 8
- challenge tracks in the first Community Innovation Challenge
- 3
Our work is motivated by Christian faith. Our services are open to everyone — without condition, and without regard to faith, background or belief.