One key sector didn’t only buck the trend of job losses during the pandemic – it actually created jobs, primarily for young people. Kasthuri Soni, CEO Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator and Reshni Singh, CEO BPESA, explain how.
Resilience is a word often misused and overly celebrated. The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent overlapping crises have meant many of our society’s most vulnerable have been forced to endure too much over the past few years.
Many young South Africans lack the essential “soft” skills to succeed in the workplace, despite having the appropriate training and eagerness to work.
Not-for-profit social enterprise Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator has partnered with SiMODisA and South African tech startup Clickatell to launch DigiLink, an incubator programme that aims to upskill unemployed youth to enter the tech economy and secure long-term employment.
DigiLink incubator was launched in Cape Town in November 2020 by Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator to bring unemployed and excluded youth into the technology (tech) economy and equip them for long-term employment.
Now, the first cohort of software testers has proven the concept. All have graduated and gained full-time employment with Clickatell, the company for which they’ve been training and working.
The first cohort of digitally-skilled youth have graduated as part of the digital training and mentoring programme introduced by Cape Town-based incubator DigiLink.
The British government will invest up to R1.3 billion of Official Development Assistance (ODA) globally on skills development, operating across nine fast-growing economies. In South Africa, its investment is dedicated to addressing skills gaps, skills mismatch, and quality training for unemployed youth and youth in Post School Education and Training (PSET) to align with South Africa’s priorities on improving technical and vocational education and training.
The British government will invest up to £75-million of official development assistance, globally, for skills development across nine fast-growing economies; with the South African portion being dedicated to addressing the skills gaps, skills mismatch and quality training for unemployed youth and youth in post-school education and training.
The Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator CEO, Maryana Iskander, will head the Wikimedia Foundation, the organisation that powers Wikipedia.
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