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Services & funding > Youth Development Partnership Fund > Round two projects > Mud slide in Opotiki
Mud slide in Opotiki
The grand opening of a Mud Slide, funded by Ministry of Youth Development’s Youth Development Partnership Fund, was the high profile event of the Opotiki Coast Fun Unplugged Festival on 2 January 2007.
 The Mud Slide epitomises what the month-long Fun Unplugged Festival is
all about - fun in the outdoor natural environment, unplugged from
electronic entertainment.
Through the Mud Slide project, young people in Opotiki have learnt
about how to set up and run a business with the help of the business
community and the Opotiki District Council.
The benefits to young people and to the Opotiki community have included:
- training and employment skills for the young people in the area of business and tourism
- the development of tourism and capacity building for the Opotiki District
- a healthy active approach to fun and activities in a stunning natural environment
- valuing of families through promoting learning, sharing having fun together.
Ministry of Youth Development Fund Project Manager, Stefan Weir, says that
the Ministry appreciates the Opotiki District Council’s commitment to
its young people by working with the young people of this community in
putting forward such an innovative and positive project and by
employing a local young person as the co-ordinator.
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