Introduction to MOT
The MOT programme
Vision and Mission
MOT SA
MOT Norway
MOT Co-ordinators
Purpose
To ensure that the youth of South Africa have the courage, resilience and life skills to make the right choices for them to develop to their full potential and become positive role models in their communities.
Vision
A warmer and safer environment for youth.
Mission:
- Empowering the youth to make conscious choices that result in their better mastering life.
- Strengthening the youth’s courage to take care of themselves and each other.
- Working at altering the youth’s attitudes, focusing on establishing sound values, choices, and a belief in their own abilities.
Core assumptions:
- Courage is the most important human quality.
- Human beings are fragile and vulnerable – and are the products of their upbringing and surroundings.
- Human beings are robust and resilient – and can decide their own future independent of their past.
Core values:
- Courage to live.
- Courage to care.
- Courage to say no.
Slogan
Show courage – make the right choices
Organizational culture:
- The right recruitment!
- Walk the talk
- – with passion!
- Courage to live
- Courage to care
- Courage to say no
- Generous
- Interested
- Determined
- Sincere
- Innovative
- Youthful
Products:
- MOT in secondary schools
- MOT in colleges
- MOT in leisure-time activities and sports clubs
Target groups:
- Primary: Youth between 12 and 21
- Secondary: Parents and teachers
Programme’s objectives:
To bring about behavioural change
- To develop the youth into individuals who make their own choices and are sufficiently confident to stick to them.
- To create environments where individual choices and the differences between people are accepted.
- To create environments where people show each other that they are valuable.
The results of MOT’s work
- Increased life quality and well-being.
- Prevention of bullying, violence and drug abuse.
