| GENERATIONEXT - defining today from the microscope of yesterday, to arrive at the desired tomorrow. |
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| LENDAHAND MISSIONS' OUTREACH |
| ...Love does not cost a fortune, just a giving; lighting others' candle do not take away from your light. |
| ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Lendahand Missions Outreach P.O.Box 30034 Secretariat, Ibadan, Nigeria Lendahand Missions' Operation Base P.O.Box 1193-00515 Nairobi Kenya Tel. Nos. +234 (0) 8034097593, 8073133867, +254 (0) 724169761, 75254367 Email: info@lend-a-hand.org |
| Designed by Lendahand Support Department |
| GENERATIONEXT We live in a world where a generation blame their woes on the shortcoming of the previous generation, or older generation castigating the succeeding generation. We keeping passing the buck and at the end of the day none is better for it. It goes without saying though that there is no generation that is self made and every new generation derives from the outgoing or preceding generations. In this age and time there are peculiar traits that defines our world that were not so obvious or great issues many years back. These traits are not too positive and everyone seems to be talking about them and how they should be addressed by very few are actually doing anything to address. The focus seems to be on the youths, and many are not comfortable with the way things are going with the youths. Instead of tracing the roots of youths' challenges, much energy is expended criticizing and castigating the youths. We beam the lights on the vices committed by the youths without asking the vital questions about why and how have they turned out the way we complain about. GENERATIONEXT is an initiative to help all(not just the youths),come to term with the challenges of our world, all of us acknowledge our failures, and make definite and pragmatic individual decision to do something positive not just to change ourselves but our little world. We all must admit that our world is the way we have made it, and stop blaming God or the devil. We are all responsible for the evil in our world today and we all must deliver the younger generation because they are simply a magnified definition of who we are or have been. Our goal is to create the much needed bridge between older and younger generation. It is to create a platform of expression for the youths to voice their view and express themselves as they are without any prejudice. We seek to create platform for e-mentoring where the younger generation can have access to good and godly guidance without the fear of being disclosed, identified, or castigated. We seek to give practical counselling not just religious indoctrination so that every individual can come to term with his/her past, present, and define the future. We believe human being are psychological entity as much as are spiritual and thus seek to combine spiritual(Word of God) and psychological theories and concepts to understand man and help man come atop of every challenges. Our emphasis are on Excellent family values and Parenting, Youth Challenges, Personal and Human Development, Teen Parenting, Parenting in the 21st Century, Relationship, Sex, Sexuality, and Sexism. We organize self discovery sessions for individuals, and also group sessions that leads to self awareness. We strongly believe that many individual and social challenges are more than just spiritual weaknesses but can actually be traced back to once developmental stages and a whole lot of things stored in the unconscious which needs unearthing before there can be a lasting and adequate psychological or spiritual rebirth. |
Parenting from Psychological Perspective The youths are daily becoming weary of 'spirituality' that is not sensitive to real life issues. Many of these youths are tired of going to churches and just on the verge of rebellion not just to God but parents. Most people become parents without prepared for the challenges of parenting. The church system hold marriage counselling for intending couples but little or nothing is done about parenting. Understanding the different stages of baby growth; physiologically and psychologically is so vital to proper development. Most of the vices we see in our world today can be traced to poor parenting at the most critical stage of life( between age 0 and 19). By the time most parents awake to the problems in their children, it is almost late and instead of accepting their shortcoming they project their deficiencies on the innocent but erring children. To help alleviate, or correct some of these deficiencies, we run training for intending parents, young parents, and youth ministers to equip them for the different stages of development, using a fusion of psychological theories and God's word. Would you love to learn more about Life developmental Stages and how you can apply in your situation. Do you want to approach raising a child from practical and godly perspective? E-mail info@lend-a-hand.org to introduce yourself and specific situation; we would be glad to take you through a session of on development stages and strategies that will help you understand your child better and have less worries as he/she grows to adolescent. |
Outreaches: School Outreaches: We hold talks, training and development forum for schools to help develop the right attitudes and characters needed to be good world citizen and excel not just in academics but also real life. Laying the foundation for exemplary future for the students of primary and secondary schools Life Skill/Peak Performance Training: We organize 'LifeSkills and Peak PerformanceTraining' in conjunction with parents within organized residential estates/neighbourhood. This is to help young children understand intrapersonal relationships and self awareness. This will help to properly negotiate the vital stages of life development, forestall future regrets, and help create healthy social culture. Youth Motivation&Productivity Enhancement: In environments where poverty, youth unemployment, low level of education, and idle living thrives; it would not be unusual to have a lot of youth vices and high crime rate. We reach out to youths through group motivation, organized group talk and discussions. We basically take Personal Development to the streets where the youths are meeting them on the platform of their vocational, hobby, and social involvement to help chart the much needed direction. We have concentrated on the much dreaded Eastland areas of Nairobi; specifically Places like Jericho, Jerusalem, Buru-Buru, Kariobangi, and gradually spreading our tentacles towards the Kangemi, and Kawangware. Personal Development Training: One of the major challenges in Africa is poverty. Poverty is at the grassroots, and without a mental shift in the way the grassroots live and perceive life, all poverty alleviation or eradication cannot have tangible impact. It is towards this end that we focus on mental and personal development of the grassroots with the intent to help redefine purpose, focus and give the much needed direction the youths need to live a productive life. We practically take our SuccessFactor outreach to the slums where major mental shift is required for Africa to change for the better. Psychological Counselling: Counselling as a field of interest is gradually gaining recognition in Africa. In this outreach we have seen a need to engage professional counselling in addressing the challenges facing the youths. We have had to help many young single mothers; particularly those between the ages of 16 and 25. Many of them have taken to strategic prostitution in the bid to cope with daily challenged and a whole lot frustrated with life. We are actively involved in one on one counselling and interactions with a number of young mothers and single women, helping them to approach their situation from practical and realistic perspective. We have discovered in about four years of relating with single mothers or men and women having challenges in relationship and sex related matters that the solution is not always spiritual but more psychological. This has led our team to take deep interest in developing ourselves in the field of psychology. A member of this team has successfully completed training in LifeSkills, Guidance and Counselling, with certificates in both. A member of the team is currently pursuing Higher Diploma in Psychological Counselling from a notable institution in Nairobi Kenya; in pursuit of this goal. As a team we are developing a counselling procedure that combines principles from the word of God and Psychological theories so as to help fill the gap created by the traditional belief that only those with psychiatric or mental issues visits psychologist. In Africa people would rather visit a pastor for help than a counsellor or psychologists. Unfortunately many pastors are not trained in counselling techniques, and often leave the client worse off than helped. |
| OUTREACH CONCEPT Many adults often claim their lives would have been much more productive had they known what they now know much earlier in life in their teens/adolescent. Much of the habits and vices adults struggle with developed between the ages of 0 and 19. Psycho sexual, psychosocial, and Behavioural theories in Psychology all agree that our adult life depend largely on how we negotiate the different stages of development that occur within this age block. Technically by the time we begin to focus on youth behaviours and youth challenges, the life is formed already and sometimes very difficult to amend. It is based on the practicality of these simple psychological theories and the word of God which duly recognizes that the first 17-20years is the most vital seasons of life that our youth/urban ministries are designed. We employ our developing concept of a good fusion of psychological theories and God's word in approaching youth challenges. |
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