Empower Youth
Through Work
#1
Year work Experience for Employable Empowered Youth
Our youth emerge from their 1-year work experience as employable, empowered, and well-rounded individuals. We focus on providing quality work experience in local schools, sewing initiatives, and small businesses. All Youth are paired with supervisors who coach and mentor them daily.
Individual lives changed
OUR FOCUS
ECD | Teacher Development | Sport | IT Skills | Sewing | SMME Development
Youth Work Experience Journey
Learn new skills - Practise implementing them – Create your future employment
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Induction
Both Youth and Host Employer inducted into programme to outline roles and responsibilities policies and procedures
Retention
For 12 months all roleplayers adhere to programme deliverables
Youth Empowerment Programme
Personal Development coupled with specific skills enhanced through experience creates pathways to employment
Youth Selection
Youth selected according to funding requirements, skills, location and industry
Exit / Absorption Strategy
Market yourself for permanent employment or follow your vision to become self-employed
Employment
Develop your own Company or become a team player within organisations
We work closely with schools that are part of the Partner for Possibility Leadership Programme. For more information on the transformational journey that the schools and the youth have undertaken download the chapter Youth@worK harnessing the power of collaboration in the newly released book 2010 -2020 Stories of Impact
PROOF
Our implementation process works
Meet Nobela.
A young mother in debt without a job and unable to pay for her education to study further.
Through our implementation program, Nobela was able to have the stability, support, and mentorship to pay off her debt, study further. As well as open up her own business, and additionally employ her own staff! All this has happened within her one-year youth placement journey.
How To Take Action
We partner with enterprises
1. FUND A YOUTH
By funding youth you are shaping and positively influencing the future of our country. This engagement will enhance your B-BBEE Scorecard in the Priority Elements of Ownership, Skills Development and Enterprise and Supplier Development (ESD).
2. DONATE A MASK
Support local mask development. Companies procuring products from us will be entitled to claim 135% of their qualifying spend.
3. BUY A MASK
Help stimulate township economies through quality mask production and distribution to help flatten the COVID-19 curve. We partner and invest in township SMMEs and the creation of youth gig jobs.
SPONSOR A MASK
If your a company, your procurement of masks through YES (level 1 B-BBEE) will entitle you to claim 135% of your qualifying spend.
117,600 +
Face masks
distributed
R1,082,000
Income back into
township communities
272+
Seamstress jobs
maintained
25 +
YES Youth
gig-jobs created
R131,400
To fund technical
and skills development
Youth@worK is the #YES implementation partner
Funders stories
This is what our proud & empowered youth are saying
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Youth@worK
Empowering young South Africans
We are a leading Implementation Partner focused on providing quality work experience for every young individual throughout all our programmes. We select workplaces based on location and skill requirements in businesses such as local schools, small businesses, and sewing establishments thereby capacitating businesses.
Harnessing the power of collaboration to develop skills, knowledge, experience and opportunities
Our Vision
“To provide young people with a supported and meaningful first year of work experience in educational institutions or business thereby strengthening and capacitating the sector to provide necessary skill for success”
