Working to foster a community of young people in Lesotho who are skilled, inspired, motivated and socially conscious.
The only initiative of its kind in Lesotho, The Hub is a dynamic and multifaceted youth centre in Morija, Lesotho that aims to tackle youth unemployment and limited access to education by providing essential learning resources, comprehensive nutritional and educational support, and a holistic environment for personal and professional growth.
Skills & Soup
SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH EDUCATION
Skills & Soup promotes education and civic participation for 125 children and adolescents by providing academic, mental health and nutrition support.
The Hub is supporting 30 Skills & Soup participants with school, exam, uniform and other educational costs in 2024, with funds raised through a crowdfunding campaign.
ATI
ACCESS TO INFORMATION
By providing a library, resource space and affordable internet access to its members, The Hub seeks to correct the social and economic injustices that young people in Lesotho face, namely: poverty, high unemployment rates and limited access to technology, the internet and resources for creativity and learning.
The only initiative of its kind in Lesotho, The Hub creates opportunities to utilize information and communications technology for research and artistic expression.
ARTIVISM
ART + ACTIVISM
Through Artivism – the use of music, writing, photography, animation and film as agents of change – The Hub seeks to increase civic participation through the arts in a context of endemic corruption, low youth civic participation and gender-based violence.
We have produced short films, photography, animation and music on diverse socio-economic issues, including gender equality, climate change, youth empowerment, GBV (Gender-Based Violence), Media and Information Literacy, Covid-19, mental health, corruption and its effects on society, and more.
Projects
Environmental Education
The Hub is hosting a free outdoor exhibition, creating open-source animations and graphics, and running workshops on climate change, plastic pollution, and environmental degradation… read more.
SRH with the Hair Salon Project
Assessing the acceptability and feasibility of promoting sexual and reproductive health services in hair salons in Lesotho… read more.
Motivation from the Hub Talk Podcast
Monthly motivational Hub Talks bring a range of professionals, creative practitioners and activists to The Hub, and the Hub Talk Podcast features each month’s speaker… read more.
Once the World Was a Village
A week-long music workshop in partnership with the Embassy of Finland in Pretoria with participants learning how to play marimba, lekolilo, lekope, thomo, cajon and djembe.… read more.
Annual membership to The Hub costs M200 ($11), and gives access to all of the Hub’s resources and activities.
What our Members are saying
“I can proudly say that I now know what I want to do for the rest of my life and that is tell stories!”
Participant in Filmmaking Workshop
“I learned that it is up to us as youth to voice our opinions, because we are the future of this country and we have a right to say what we see in order to have a developed country.”
Participant in Human Rights Workshop
“I have discovered at Skills & Soup that it is so important to always
Skills & Soup participant
have a desire to learn”.
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