Support 5000 young graduates to be self-employed

We continue to fight with all we have to continue helping as many unemployed youth as possible. This is because of our strong belief that if you support one youth to set up a business, you will be helping a whole lot of unemployed youth to gain jobs. We also know for a fact that providing gainful jobs to unemployed youth reduces the incidence of social vices and crime. We are therefore grateful to all our donors, especially the recurrent ones, for supporting us to implement this project.

To date we have received US$7,770 out of the US$100,000 needed to start and sustain the project. We have however been able to forge ahead, through the funds raised for new projects as well as micro-projects under this project. Feedback indicates that our alumni are all doing well on their own now. We are still in touch with many of them. 

To keep the project going, we have included a new support modality called “Business Facilitation” where we take on board a category of participants who can pay a fixed minimal amount for the TY facilities they use (based on ability to pay). They get everything else free. This helps to continue to take on needy participants who cannot pay registration and enrolment fees as well as those who can only pay these nominal fees through scheduled payments. But we still have to waive payment of these nominal fees for others. Together with the funds raised and what TY has on hand, the project is doing all it can not to turn away needy applicants.

Under this business facilitation modality, we now have on board a two-man business team, which organizes writers’ workshops for young and upcoming youth. This is ongoing and they have employed 3 youth. We also have three young individuals coming together to start a restaurant. They will start in mid February 2015 and they will employ 6 youth. These two start-up businesses alone are thereby providing jobs for 13 unemployed youth. This supports our concept of Youth Creating Jobs For Youth. So with the support of our donors we have confirmed the veracity of the concept.

We have many alumni now doing well in their own businesses or as employees in reputable companies. Recently, one of our alumni – Emma, has become a recurrent donor. And of course there is Felix, who has now set up his own fashion business in the US and has employed some youth. So you see, this project is even having an impact on unemployment in the US. We wish to say a perpertual THANK YOU to our Recurrent Donors for staying with us through thick and thin. We are grateful.

The sustainability of the project however depends on timely and regular donations in view of the fact that budgeted purchasing power depreciates with time. We will therefore be grateful indeed, if:

1. Our recurrent donors continue to support us until we become sustainable
2. Our current donors could consider becoming recurrent donors
3. All our donors could help us attract new recurrent and seasonal donors
4. That anybody reading our reports and project details could consider becoming a recurrent or seasonal donor

We are grateful for all the help we have received and look forward to those to come. We are young or were young once. We know how it feels. Help one unemployed graduate today. Please spread the news.

THANK YOU