Skills Development in South Africa

EDUTAK

EDUTAK is an accredited early childhood development organisation which trains and empowers women in early childhood education and entrepreneurial skills in various provinces. Courses offered are from level 1 to level 4 of the national qualifications framework and fits within the National Certificate in Early Childhood Education. The organisation has won the ABSA/SACECD Early Childhood Development award as the best established training organisation in Limpopo Province.

Klein Karoo Resource Centre

The project offers accredited training for women in both small business skills and early childhood development. The project works in the Southern Cape coastal area, Klein Karoo, Upper Karoo and Eastern Cape. They train unemployed women to achieve the required outcomes of the SAQA registered unit standards on early childhood development (Level 4) so that they may work in educare centres (crèches) and provide quality education to the children in their care.

For more information about these projects that tackle unemployment in South Africa, contact us.

Community Poultry Development Service

The project provides skills and resources to individual households in poultry farming, in various communities. The project providers a starter kit to each household. This starter kit and continued mentoring assist the poultry farmers to become financially self-sustained.

Connections

Connections seek to break the cycle of poverty, and promote social and economic development in the Western Cape by helping community workers and organisations to accomplish self-sustaining development in their area.

They run an organisational development support programme and also offer a number of basic courses. They have created publications to support their work - their Organisational Skills Toolkit for Community Workers even has NQF status.

Goedgedacht Trust

The Goedgedacht Trust is an integrated community skills development programme for farm workers and their families in the Riesbeeksrivier Valley of the Swartland region of the Western Province. The trust works with farm workers and their families to break out of generations of poverty.

Hlanganani Ngothando

Hlanganani Ngothando is a rural development programme comprising:

• The Esiqobile Therapy Centre for handicapped children.
• A Youth and Community Development Programme: The programme provides computer literacy, English literacy, healthcare programmes, learner license preparation programme and maths tutoring.
• Aids Outreach: They provide materials, medicines and food parcels for 100 families affected by HIV/AIDS using home-based care. Prison and schools outreach - drugs, crime and AIDS awareness.
• Arts andcrafts programmes and youth clubs.

Umthathi Training Project

Umthathi is an education and training organisation. Their mission is:

• Improve household health through increasing access to food
• Make effective use of available resources
• Develop the skills necessary for improved livelihoods and self-sufficiency in rural and peri-urban areas in the Eastern Cape.

They run a variety of skills development courses to achieve this.

Komani Catholic Development

Komani Catholic Development is a rural development organisation that works with small community-based organisations, assisting them in the setting up of projects and of accessing resources.

Rural Development Support Program (RDSP)

RDSP has been offering support to rural organisations since 1992. They offer training in organisational development, business development skills and research skills. The Small business unit supports rural entrepreneurs with needs assessments, marketing & technical advice and access to resources & funding. Other services include:

Open learning programme - distribution of self help training manuals and regular info packs.

Youth Unlimited - linking rural youth groups with services and access to funding.

Discovery Exchange & Exposure programme - organising seminars of common interest and exposure visits to share ideas/models/resources.

Eastern Cape Honey Farmers Project

This skills development project trains people from rural areas of the Eastern Cape in beekeeping. The trainees received continued instruction, monitoring and mentoring and aim to create opportunities for financial independence.

St. Mary Mazzarello Training Centre

The training centre was started to cater for young girls who were on the streets with limited options for education. The centre trains young women in life and vocational skills such as sewing, hand and machine knitting, pattern design, factory procedure. The centre offers a three-year course and caters for around 90 girls.

You and Your Money

You & Your Money is dedicated to addressing household debt. Their aim is to break the cycle of debilitating debt for disadvantaged people. They guide groups and individuals towards control of their personal debt and towards gaining financial dignity through:

• Running training programmes on personal financial management and credit
• Offering free personal debt advice to individuals who are trapped in crisis debt situations
• Promoting a culture of healthy financial practices, which includes encouragement of saving & planning amongst the poor.

Cans4Skills - Breadline Africa's Very Own Community Development Project

There is a buzz of excitement in our office in Cape Town which I haven’t felt for a long time. This excitement is caused by our very latest community development project called Cans4Skills. It’s a strange name so let me explain it to you.

‘Cans’ is the name that many people in the container industry use for containers. We renovate these containers every year and try to find practical uses for these solid structures in a way that may aid community development, projects that will help people to help themselves.

Skills Development With Cans4Skills

But now we want these cans to do a job for us that is very different from what they’ve done before. We want to use these cans for skills development in informal settlements - skills that communities can earn a living from. Skills like plumbing, painting, bricklaying, cooking and other domestic tasks, such as ironing, using a washing machine, microwave etc.

Our Skills Training Project Program Needs Your Help

We are on the campaign trail to find people who want to support our Cans4Skills community development project so that we can make unemployment a thing of the past. Our belief is that, “You might be poor and you might be uneducated, but Cans4Skills will equip you with the basic skills training so that you can get out there and earn your living, hold your head up with confidence and support your family.”

Show your support for the Cans4Skills skills development programme and donate now. Get more information about this unique community development project if you contact us.