Our programmes are aimed at the improvement of the quality of the recipients through promotion of education, rural development, and health and poverty alleviation as part of social development. These programmes contribute towards the advancement of the socio-economic welfare of all the people with special focus on the economic impact that the operation has on the surrounding communities, as well as rural communities from which migrant labour tends to be drawn.
Today, young people navigate so many broken systems in their transition from a poorly performing education system into a labour market shaped by jobless growth and massive disruption. Barely a third will find work or are able to continue their education. The situation is particularly dire for young women, whose barriers to work-seeking are higher and harder than they are for young men.
This unequal labour market is held in place by our belief that "more skills and/or upskilling, degrees, training, means that you'll have a leg up on opportunity." But this is not the lived reality of millions of young women and men.
South Africa has one of the highest rates of youth unemployment in the world. Businesses struggle to hire and grow, governments invest limited tax revenues in incentives and training that don't deliver results, and motivated young people are locked out of the economy by many barriers. Achieving this vision means more than giving thousands of youths a 'leg up' as we have done in our first 9 years.
These above led to the birth of the Ready to Work Programme. - as it has become a matter of uttermost emergency that we all need to work to remove the systemic barriers that will create more opportunities for all.
We believe that in by addressing South Africa's challenges - at scale and at its root - right in our townships, we can provide and be part of the solution to tackle the global challenge of youth unemployment.