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The #IYXMOVE initiative is a mobile development hub that travels the length and breath of Southern Africa to tell stories, ignite fires and connect communities. The mobile hub is essentially a moving communication platform, natural clinic, classroom, library, cultural center and sustainable development vehicle that serves both urban and rural indigenous and non-indigenous communities across Southern Africa.
IYX Move works in partnership with IYX Radio to document and share indigenous culture and community affairs, helping to preserve indigenous knowledge systems and empower the indigenous voice. Our highly trained team uses IYX Move to provide developmental support and resources to our youth ambassadors and community partners, holding youth camps and workshops as well as providing remote assistance and workable solutions to indigenous communities in need.
As IYX Africa the foundation of our work begins on the ground through our remote assistance efforts which allows us to interact with and experience communities first hand; their joys and struggles, cultures and environments and allows us deeper insight into possible solutions for a sustainable future. By bringing our resources and knowledge directly to communities in need, we aim to bridge the gap between them and the support they need to develop themselves, preserve their culture and tell their story.
Follow #IYXMove through our social media and help support us by donating now:
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IYX Africa offers remote assistance to urban and remote indigenous communities who often struggle with access to basic resources and support to meet their daily needs and development – including healthy food, water, medical care and culturally relevant education.
Years of oppression have left the SAN with limited access to highly degraded land. Their cultural development has not been supported, which is threatening their languages, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and rights’ of passage and spiritual beliefs. Not only are they neglected, suffering acute water and food insecurity due to variable sources of income. The SAN also experience discrimination from the other ethnic groups they share land with.
From providing nutritious meals, supplying communities with water pumps, building clay ovens, distributing reusable pads and providing natural wellness support, IYX Africa has offered much needed relief to these communities since our conception.
To witness our on the ground remote assistance, visit our social media platforms:
NATIVE CHILD OF THE WORLD (NCW) BUSH CAMPS & ONLINE PROGRAMS
The NCW Youth Camp Project by IYX Africa aims to empower youth with essential skills for driving sustainable development in their communities.
Our initiative focuses on training identified future leaders through a series of workshops and camps held both online and in person across Southern Africa. These youth ambassadors are equipped as self-empowered changemakers to return home and implement projects that will uplift their community, with the support of a network of youth leaders and experienced mentors that enable and inspire them on their path.
Our program includes agroecology, holistic wellness and trauma recovery, culture and heritage, entrepreneurship and skills development, as well as environmentalism and bush-skills.
We will offer these programs as on-line tool-kits for both our youth ambassadors as well as community activists and organizations. Our first major youth camp was held in Namaqualand in 2024. We have also held several youth development workshops and programs in partnership with schools across South Africa.
Watch our video we made documenting our first NCW Bush Camp in Namaqualand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Z6a8ttSQw
Our vision is to hold our main in-person camps at a base-camp we establish in the Drakensberg – both an indigenous cultural and environmental heritage site – as well as to expand our youth camps to satellite partners across Southern Africa.
Through these camps and programs, we aim to transform participants into environmental champions who can be guardians of the earth and pioneers of sustainable development within their communities.
If you would like to help support these camps or engage in our programs please contact us via email at indigiyouthexchange@gmail.com
IYX Radio serves as the broadcast section and media house of IYX Africa, with the ultimate goal of empowering the indigenous voice, and connecting indigenous youth and communities with each other and the rest of the world.
Through documenting and sharing indigenous stories, culture and knowledge, as well as facilitating meaningful dialogue and discussions on indigenous affairs and sustainable development, IYX Radio aims to empower youth, foster understanding, and promote cultural pride, whilst creating a platform for connection and collaboration among indigenous communities.
By enabling youth to express themselves, tell their story and create their own media, we empower them to contribute to the growing dialogue around indigenous affairs in Southern Africa and around the world, hold their leaders accountable and use their creativity to inspire and impact their community and the world.
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The #saveoursan campaign was created to raise awareness about the current state of living conditions and human rights violations in SAN communities within the SADC region as well as to support and assist in developing SAN communities from the !XOON, !!Kung, Ju| Hoansi and N|OHAN tribes of the Omaheke Region of Namibia as well as the !XUN tribe of Platfontein in the Northern Cape of South Africa.
These communities are some of the last San people in Southern Africa and are in desperate need of food and water security solutions. These peoples hold indigenous knowledge and rich cultural histories that are vitally important and IYX Africa believes it should be preserved and protected. The communities are at high risk due to tuberculosis (TB), HIV, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and now Covid-19.
We believe it is time the world heard the cries of the oldest people, the San, who have thus far been forgotten. IYX Africa believes that the #saveoursan campaign will create momentum for the San communities in Omaheke and Platfontein. IYX Africa aims to bring the relevant skills into these communities to enable movement in a direction of self-determination through our trainers of trainers camps, additional assistance as well as through IYX Radio’s documentation of the state of living and their rich cultural languages and customs.
IYX Africa believes that most impact is made on the ground as we connect directly with the natural environment, communities and individuals. The #indigiwalk movement was borne from this principle and each year the walk seeks to support a particular campaign.
In 2021 The year started with the, “Khoe San and Friends Walk to Save the Okavango Delta” this walk was peaceful protest where we walked from Knysna to Cape Town in protest against the Canadian Oil exploration in the Kavango region of Namibia and Botswana. IYX Africa also handed over a signed petition and official objection to the Namibian Consulate General in Cape Town in opposition to these events in SAN homelands.
Read about the journey here >> https://bit.ly/3QnotgY
