FIGHT WITH INSIGHT

Fight with Insight contributes positively to healthy lifestyles and sustainable communities for children and youth in the inner city of Johannesburg. It is one of the few programmes that focuses on the boy child without excluding the girl child.

Launched in 2006, Fight with Insight is a boxing gym where young people from all backgrounds and abilities can come together to think and share experiences in a way that promotes greater social cohesion and equality across race, gender, and ability.

Young people receive integrated physical and mental well-being services, which allows them to move beyond a state of survival and into a state in which they are able to think about their future and how they are in relation to others:

  • Fitness: Body Weight training, Running and the Discipline of Boxing
  • Food: REAL food, cooking classes, nutrition support programme
  • Friends & family: Creating a Positive Peer Culture, youth council
  • Feelings: Psychosocial & educational support programme
  • Fun: Children’s Occupation is Play

Through their work, Fight with Insight has achieved an exceptionally strong youth leadership component, which has contributed to the increasing relevance and growth of the programme. An example of this growth is the creation of “Nirvana” by a Fight with Insight member in 2019 – a community-based initiative for young girls and women in inner-city Hillbrow, Berea, Yeoville and surrounds.

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