Egolisquash Youth Empowerment

Egoli Youth Empowerment (EYE), is a holistic development program that focuses on empowering and enabling young people to positively contribute to the upliftment of their community, and society at large. Our passion lies in ensuring that both girls and boys from disadvantaged communities have the chance to have fun, while learning the skills necessary to reach their goals and positively contribute to their communities. We are involved in the Johannesburg Innercity, Soweto and Alex communities where a significant number of households are struggling with high unemployment rates, unstable family units, and youth who are exposed to environments with crime and violence nearly every day of their ... read more Egoli Youth Empowerment (EYE), is a holistic development program that focuses on empowering and enabling young people to positively contribute to the upliftment of their community, and society at large. Our passion lies in ensuring that both girls and boys from disadvantaged communities have the chance to have fun, while learning the skills necessary to reach their goals and positively contribute to their communities. We are involved in the Johannesburg Innercity, Soweto and Alex communities where a significant number of households are struggling with high unemployment rates, unstable family units, and youth who are exposed to environments with crime and violence nearly every day of their lives. Using the sport of squash as a vehicle, we now connect to about 1 500 youths through our enrichment programmes: Academic Support Leadership and Entrepreneurship Skills Life Skills Boys Matter Too Girls Safer Spaces One of our huge milestone, was in August 2023, where one of our Inner-city players, Diodivine Mkhize qualified to represent South Africa in the World Squash Junior Championships in Australia. Defying all odds, Dio is a true epitome that "nothing is impossible" and dreams can be achieved through sport.