Our mission is to lead the delivery of comprehensive, high-quality, high-impact one-to-one mentorship programmes throughout South Africa (and beyond), helping young people everywhere improve their independence and well-being, through better-quality decision making and consistent healthy practices. "SAYes programmes involve nine months of weekly, one-hour, one-to-one mentoring sessions. Since 2008, we have supported over 1400 matches- achieving an 81% graduation rate over 15 years of social change."
Each of GlobalGiving’s nonprofit partners is required to send quarterly donor reports detailing the impact of their work. Here are some of their recent updates:
By Colleen Pinto | Communications Lead
What’s Happened Since Our Campaign Began Since we launched our Giving Tuesday 2025 campaign with the goal of raising $10,000 to sustain our mentorship programmes, we’ve... Read the full report ›By Colleen Pinto | Communications Lead
At SAYes Mentoring, we believe that when young people are supported, they discover their voice — and Kwabena’s story is a shining example. A mentee in our programme, Kwabena recently... Read the full report ›By Colleen Pinto | Communications Lead
Since our last report, SAYes has matched 52 new mentor-mentee pairs, bringing our total active matches to 164. We delivered 2 mentor training sessions (June and September) and... Read the full report ›
