Unemployed youth go through learnership programme
More than 200 unemployed youth from Lusaka were introduced to a learnership programme that will give them skills and knowledge to start their own business or access job opportunities.
The skills development learnership programme organised by Soil of Africa was held at the Lusaka Calvary Church on Tuesday.
Soil of Africa regional convener Joseph Maake said the organisation partnered with various stakeholders to offer skills development to unemployed youth in and around Tshwane.
Maake said the programme is aimed at fighting poverty and unemployment among the youth in places like Mabopane, Soshanguve and Ga-Rankuwa.
'The youth are going to be enrolled in our six-month skills development learnership initiative called Business Management and Sales Learnership. [It] is going to change their lives and help them start their own businesses or use the certificates to access job opportunities,' said Maake.
He said the youth will do theory and then put it into practice, and every month get a stipend of R2 000.
'The programme has been going on for a couple of months. The first intake was in Mamelodi East, and then we moved to Hammanskraal with a target of enrolling 200 unemployed youth into this initiative.'
The participants will be taken to various businesses to practise what they learned and get first-hand experience on how to run businesses.
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More than 200 unemployed youth from Lusaka were introduced to a learnership programme that will give them skills and knowledge to start their own business or access job opportunities. The skills development learnership programme organised by Soil of Africa was held at the Lusaka Calvary Church on Tuesday. Soil of Africa regional convener Joseph Maake said the organisation partnered with various stakeholders to offer skills development to unemployed youth in and around Tshwane. Maake said the programme is aimed at fighting poverty and unemployment among the youth in places like Mabopane, Soshanguve and Ga-Rankuwa. 'The youth are going to be enrolled in our six-month skills development learnership initiative called Business Management and Sales Learnership. [It] is going to change their lives and help them start their own businesses or use the certificates to access job opportunities,' said Maake. He said the youth will do theory and then put it into practice, and every month get a stipend of R2 000. 'The programme has been going on for a couple of months. The first intake was in Mamelodi East, and then we moved to Hammanskraal with a target of enrolling 200 unemployed youth into this initiative.' The participants will be taken to various businesses to practise what they learned and get first-hand experience on how to run businesses. ALSO READ: Brooklyn remains SA's top hotspot for vehicle theft despite national decline Do you have more information about the story? Please send us an email to bennittb@ or phone us on 083 625 4114. For free breaking and community news, visit Rekord's websites: Rekord East For more news and interesting articles, like Rekord on Facebook, follow us on Twitter or Instagram or TikTok. At Caxton, we employ humans to generate daily fresh news, not AI intervention. Happy reading!
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