MYM student group - Teambuilding Exercise held at 'The Spirit of Adventure Camp' Shongweni Dam

The Muslim Youth Movement believes in fostering the spirit of togetherness and instilling leadership qualities within its members. In keeping with this we have planned and executed a team building exercise for the MYM Student Group. Our most recent visit was to “The Spirit of Adventure Camp” at the Shongweni Dam and Game Reserve on Saturday, the 07^th of May 2016. Despite the inclement weather conditions the students persevered and continued with their team building. The aim of this exercise was for the MYM Student Group to discover their strong points within a team as they navigated through a natural setting.

The day’s activities included abseiling, raft building and racing. The abseiling activity required that individual students be strapped backward and go down the dam wall at a drop of 200 metres. As expected many of the students were overcome with fear, however with motivation from the instructor, they were successful in completing the task. While abseiling focused on overcoming individual fear the next activities of raft building and racing had an emphasis on team building. The team had to build a raft and paddle to the other end of the dam and return.

The experience was well reciprocated and the students walked away with new found knowledge.

The MYM orientation camps for high school and tertiary students will be co-ordinated by the same group who attended.The members of the MYM Student Group were recruited through the MYM Camp programmes. The student group has regular meetings and halqa sessions where the planning and execution of programmes such as camps, seminars, workshops and feeding schemes, amongst others are discussed. Previous students from our groups have been placed in various community organizations whilst a few have been elected within the MYM National Executive. The present General Secretary, Assistant General Secretary, Treasurer, Kwazulu-Natal Regional Chairperson and Gender Co-ordinator are the results of our Student Programmes.