Samkelisiwe Sibisi

Samkelisiwe Youth Development

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Samkelisiwe Youth Development was borne out of sincere love, passion for youth and women empowerment, with a firm belief in their potential and desire to enable them to play active role in changing their lives and taking charge of their future. Our goal is to support and create an enabling environment for our young people to learn, grow and become economically active citizens. Samkelisiwe Youth Development has adopted the three pillars of education, employability and entreprenuership as a framework for our economic inclusion strategy: 1. Education We have partnered with local High School at Inanda, we host annual career exhibitions, workshops and provide students advisory services especially grade 11 and grade 12 learners, and youth empowerment summit. and young women conference. 2. Employability: Skills Development programmes We have number of initiates which are aimed at helping job seekers find meaningful and sustainable employment. and much of this is centred around skills development, our focus on youth empowerment is to also assists graduates who may require additional soft skills and work experience that would make them more employable and as well as placement on Work-Integrated Learning and voluntary work placements. 3. Entreprenuership Skills The small, medium and micro enterprise (SMME) sector is a vital engine of growth in South Africa. Samkelisiwe Youth Development provide a holistic business support support services, which includes business registration, business start-ups workshops and support to youth and women. With confidence and hope to reduce youth and women unemployment associated poverty levels and inequality by providing opportunities for youth to grow , sustain their businesses and have an enhanced quality of life.