Dear friends
Today I start this weekly update with a special appeal (with tears in my navy-blue eyes!) to those who have indicated that they wish to attend VYLTP’s 10th anniversary celebrations from 12 to 16 June: please make sure that you REGISTER online at https://forms.gle/b4PhM6yAqLtrNM8V6 by May 29 for the latest, but please do not wait until then.
Continue readingOn 16 June 2026, the Volmoed Youth Leadership Training Programme (VYLTP) marks a decade of changing lives. Over the past ten years, we’ve walked alongside young, unemployed South Africans as they rediscover hope, build confidence, and reclaim a sense of purpose.
Today, VYLTP stands as a beacon of dignity and opportunity for youth striving toward a better future. One of our proudest current initiatives is The Volmoed Drummers — a vibrant project you can explore in more detail here.
As we look ahead, we invite you to help shape the next ten years of possibility.
Continue readingOn 16 June 2016, on the fortieth anniversary of the June 16, 1976 Soweto riots that became known as “Youth Day” in South Africa, a unique youth programme was launched at a unique place called Volmoed, close to Hermanus.
The programme founders, Edwin Arrison and John de Gruchy, had big dreams: to let it be a place and programme where young Christian leaders from across the globe could gather to be trained in order to be sent back to their various communities. It soon became clear that our impact would actually be limited if we spread ourselves too thinly and tried to do too much, but we continued to gather young people for 9 to 10 weeks, until 2019.
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