ROCK YOUR LIFE! is a project for more equality in education and more equal opportunity: During their 8th and 9th school years, youth from a socially disadvantaged background are partnered with young people in order to pave the way for a successful transition to a career. Like a “big brother” or “big sister,” the young adults and university students, who are specially trained as mentors, help their younger mentees. Both sides benefit from this process: The younger students profit from the guidance of a young adult, who in turn profits from the mentoring experience and strengthens his or her own soft skills.
The Jansen PrimeSteps Foundation has supported ROCK YOUR LIFE!CH from the very beginning, even before it was founded. The foundation enabled RYL!CH’s start and supported it in its first three years of development, until the end of 2016. That makes the project RYL!CH the first successfully completed start-up pilot project in the history of our foundation, having achieved self-reliance and scale.