Objectives

Usiko's objectives are to:

• Develop and continually improve programmes for youth at risk and in conflict with the law.
• Explore the healing power of rituals, both ancient and modern, in the development of youth programmes.
• Provide a resource and act as a collective memory for rites of passage youth programmes.
• Expose young people to the wonder and power of the natural environment, and to use wilderness experiences as metaphors for personal transformation.
• Offer the courts rites of passage programmes as alternatives to prison sentences for young people in trouble with the law.
• Cooperate or affiliate with communities, structures and organisations that have similar aims and objectives.
• Advocate on behalf of the youth at risk and lobby and liaise with the State, stake holders and other role players to provide more powerful and appropriate     rehabilitative and healing interventions for young people.
• To raise funds to finance our programmes and other programmes with similar objectives.