Skills Village 2030 - Xperience 2030 SDG Challenge

xPerience 2030 is planned as a Social Media documentary for shared learning and earning. It is planned to document the daily activities, as young social entrepreneurs use events aligned to the SDG’s to create micro-economies that maximise the multiplier effect, minimize leakage and increase the socio-economic and environmental health and wealth of local communities. Creating co-operative work integrated learning and earning sustainable spaces by creating events and activities aligned to the 17 Sustainable Development Goal Events. The plan is to launch the Xperience 2030 SDG Challenge "creating micro-economies for Social Change" for unemployed youth, grads, interns and where business can offer workplace experience, funding for enterprise, supplier and skills development .South Africa has a visionary policy called B-BBEE - Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment - and they hope to challenge business to invest in supporting 17 SDG Events. This would create a Work Integrated Learning for a year for 17 different event organizer groups, starting small in year 1 and building capacity for larger events in the future. Most importantly, the partners believe that this initiative will create a huge awareness of the SDGs through the TEN STEP PROCESS for engaging communities.More specifically,Step 1 consists of a Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow baseline,gathering the stories of the individual – the past, the present and the dream for the future.Step 2 – Mbawula Dialogues – Talking sharing opportunities Step 3 – GRID MAP – Mapping the local community – identifying local commodities, goods, services and experiences Step 4 – Identifying four cornerstone support spaces in the local community – a space for an Ubuntu TEA House, a space to learn, a space for business support and a space for Monitoring and Evaluating the daily experiences.Step 5 – Introducing two support structures – IFEA Africa – the International Festivals & Events Association Africa – to support the individual Occupation Development and ISHISHINI 2nd Coop for support services as the enterprises and cooperatives developStep 6 – The Birthday Club for Socio-Economic DevelopmentStep 7 – Community Market Day for Enterprise DevelopmentStep 8 – Delivering the SDG EventsStep 9 – Creating a Map for Event Tourism in the local Community Step 10- Monitoring, evaluating and reporting on an annual basis through the UMNOTHO Festival: 14 – 17th October which will include Events on National Disaster Reduction, World Standards Day, World Food Day, Global Hand washing Day, World Rural Women’s Day, International Day for Eradication of Poverty – 6 SDG events in one week