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MOT (meaning courage) is a comprehensive, global life skills programme aimed at strengthening youth’s awareness and courage to live, courage to care, and courage to say no.
MOT strengthens youth's robustness, mastery of life, mental health, awareness and courage. MOT promotes safe class environments where all are included.
Partnering with educational institutions and communities, we empower educators, social, and youth workers to become MOT coaches, delivering this programme over a maximum of 3 years.
Among the factors that make MOT unique are the five programmes in schools and local communities, with a 50-50 focus on the individual and on the group. The programmes strengthen the individual's robustness and awareness and promote robust and constructive relationships - safe class environments, inclusive school cultures and sustainable local communities.
See all programmesThe MOT ambassadors are high profiled role models within sports and cultural life. By being involved in MOT and proudly wearing the MOT logo, they are contributors to strengthening youth's quality of life. MOT's ambassadors reinforce MOT as a brand.
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Local MOT coaches, who are excellent at reaching the youth are crucial for MOT to have success. A MOT school is a secondary or upper secondary school that has entered into partnership with MOT. MOT also enters into partnership with municipalities. Click below to see all the schools in MOT South Africa that have MOT.
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This month, we shine the MOT Flashlight on Soyamise Makolwane, a dedicated MOT youth and Young MOTivator from one of our partnering schools in Burgersdorp, Eastern Cape. From joining MOT as a Grade 8 learner with little understanding of the programme, to growing into a confident leader who stands up for others, her story reflects […]
This Youth Day, Voices of Courage 2026 brought together more than 800 young people across the Western Cape and Eastern Cape to celebrate courage, the power of young voices, and to honour the legacy of the youth of 16 June 1976, whose courage paved the way for future generations. Our Voices of Courage Event is […]
