Layla to attend top international camp
A gr. 12 learner from Taxila Secondary School, Layla Amod, was selected by the Nelson Mandela Museum to represent South Africa at an international youth camp in Germany.
POLOKWANE – A gr. 12 learner from Taxila Secondary School, Layla Amod, was selected by the Nelson Mandela Museum to represent South Africa at an international youth camp in Germany.
Layla and four other learners from different provinces were chosen for this honour at the Nelson Mandela Museum’s winter camp in the Eastern Cape last year. More than 100 learners from all nine provinces attended this camp, which focused on debating, poetry, creative writing, drama, history and oral research.
Layla will be in Germany from March 22 to April 4 and the youth camp is fully funded by the Anne Frank House Foundation and the German government.
Before the five learners leave the country they will meet in Johannesburg for a workshop from March 20 to March 22.
According to a letter from the Nelson Mandela Museum, the aim of the youth camp is to enrich the lives of young people and capacitate them on understanding of values, history and cultural diversity.
Learners from different countries will attend the international youth camp. Each country will be given an opportunity to showcase their country’s diversity and culture. “I am very excited and cannot wait to represent South Africa internationally, but I am also nervous because I do not know what to expect. I hope to make the country and my school proud. I look forward to the experience, meeting new people, and the food,” Layla said.
