About
Umbon’ Omhle loosely translated means ‘good or beautiful example /advice/ vision’
‘Uniting Our Community through the Practice of Human Principles’
Umbon’ Omhle is a youth organisation based in Langa. The organisation is composed of young men and women skilled and experienced in conversation, music, film, sound, dance, cooking, horticulture, poetry, debate, drama, visual art, sport, community campaigns and organisational development.
The vision of the organisation is to see a safer and more self-reliant Langa. We advocate community responsibility by promoting self respect, independence, self-reliance and the creation of self-employment opportunities. We believe that through carefully considered actions and modeling we can help inspire new ways of thinking about current realities in our community as a whole, concentrating more particularly on the youth.
Through the practice of nurturing and mentoring for individual and community growth, we want to empower young people by providing them with skills that they can use as a source of upliftment and as a means to support themselves, their families and their community. We wish to create new possibilities for our community through the provision of programs which would otherwise be too expensive to study at higher educational institutions. In combining these skills with value systems that focus on the human spirit, we hope to encourage a new set of cultural practices which will enable members of the broader community to place their humanity at the heart of all interactions. We believe in the development of all creatures, including the development of mother Earth.
Through the cultural practices of music, drama, art, and film we have come to realise that true learning comes best through reflective processes. Human beings generally express themselves through emulation and this requires us to be fully aware of the experience and effect of our actions at all times. Based on this understanding we are continually formulating activities, combined with our skills to programmatise these reflective processes.
‘all beings are mirrors, let us begin to grapple with and gradually understand what it is we are reflecting’