A BIT ABOUT US
Here at GMS Modeling School, we see the value in everyone. We want to be a catalyst for positive change, and since our beginnings in 2020, we’ve been driven by the same ideas we initially founded our Modeling and Advertising School upon support, empowerment, and progress. Learn more about our mission, our vision, and how we go about making the changes we want to see.
BRIEF HISTORY OF GMS
Our Roots
The Organisation GMS is a Non-Profit Organisation that was initiated on the 6 October 2020 by Verquleen Hendrikse who identified a need in Atlantis and surrounding areas for keeping young girls, boys, young men, and ladies away from negative and unhealthy lifestyles, teenage pregnancies, and school drop-outs through training them in a modeling school and also keep them busy with a talent show where they are trained to be professionals and elegant young ladies and sophisticated men who are positive role models in their respective communities.
The Organisation’s membership focuses mostly on ordinary young people from our direct communities who show great interest and passion for making positive changes in our community. The organization is driven by a Management Board and the Organisation is as well constituted. We are in process of final registration as a Non-Profit Organisation and awaiting the issue of the official NPO Certificate. The organization’s objectives revolve around numerous amounts of critical challenges faced daily by our community and strive to tackle them but will only be able to achieve these goals by generating income by means of fundraisings, donations in kind, ect.
OBJECTIVES
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES
The organisation's main objectives are to:
1. Developing and manage a Modeling and Advertising and Media School.
2. Provide Training Courses for disadvantaged communities in the following fields:
· Model's Poise and Posture
· Skin Care
· Makeup Artistry
· Nail Care
· Personality Development
· Effective Speech and Voice Projection
· Professional Photo Movement
· Runway Techniques
· Wardrobe Planning & Accessorizing
· Television Presence & Public Speaking
· Color Analysis
· Video Fashion Modeling
· Modelling in Groups and Pairs
· Television Commercials
· Nutrition and Exercise
· Talk Show Workshops
· Showmanship
· Fashion Workshops
· Hair Care
· Formal & Informal Fashion Show Techniques
· Developing Model Manners
· Product Modeling
· On Camera Photo Shoot
3. Create employment opportunities in the Modeling and Advertising and Media industry.
4. Act as conduit for models between different Modeling Advertising and Media schools, agencies and companies.
5. Empowering models with regards to laws and policies in the Modeling Advertising and Media industry.
6. Create awareness projects and workshops that focus on the fight against Gender Base Violence and Child Abuse.
7. Create awareness programmes and workshops for the prevention of substance abuse and teenage pregnancies.
modelling competitions for local talent to gain exposé to the broader modelling industry.
OBJECTIVES
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES
The organisation's secondary objectives will be to:
1. Provide support and assistance to modelling projects with access to funding.
2. Identify and develop potential models at primary and secondary schools.
3. Conduct capacity building workshops and trainings to youth.
4. Organise modelling competitions for local talent to gain exposé to the broader modelling industry.
