Built Africa is a youth and women development centre based within Pretoria, South Africa. Our key focus areas are economic empowerment in the form of skills development and Computer skills training as well as mentorship for unemployed youth and women between 18 to 35 years old. The aim of computer training is to equip 240 youth and women with a skill that is highly sought and used at the workplace for a better chance of securing employment to achieve their full potential in life.
The youth unemployment rate in South Africa is at an unacceptable level of 55.75%. The joblessness among women with 27.7% is consistently higher compared to their male counterparts. It is thus evident from the unemployment statistics that youth and women are the worst affected groups that is why Built Africa has identified these groups as targets of our interventions. Therefore computer skills training will enable them to become employable and useful at the workplace.
This computer training is to equip youth and women with a skill that is highly in demand at the workplace that can also be applied in their personal capacity. This recognized and accredited training is designed but not limited to MS Word package to broaden their knowledge and to boost their confidence to face any challenge for securing any entry-level job.
The end result of this training is to reduce poverty and violence as they become responsible individuals and contributors to the economy. Over 347 youth and women have successfully completed the computer training and 97 found jobs. We have a waiting list of over 340 candidates. Through this training women will rise out of poverty, which will provide for their family's well-being and youth will become independent and self-sufficient which will ease the burden of their parents and communities.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
