Employment

Why an employment program?

Youth living in poverty need basic job skills, have a hard time accessing information about available jobs. Youth lack the knowledge to complete job applications, do not have the skills to create resumes and lack interview skills.  Youth need  entrepreneurship skills to start up their own businesses such as gardening. Youth need to be able to participate in a technological society.

How are we going to help them?

Entrepreneurship support-  teach youth entrepreneurship skills to start small businesses and provide them with start-up capital. Employment support-  provide employment advisors to guide youth through the job search process, including interviewing, preparing a resume, and completing applications.  Link those who have successfully participated in the project career planning services with potential employers. Career planning- help youth to identify their skills, aptitudes and interests and use those to identify job and career paths.

1 in 2 children living in Mix Informal Settlement Area of Namibia are lacking skills on how to create CV and interview guides to find jobs. And once they’re done with school are just sitting at home with their certificates. We are hiring 2 advisors to guide the youth.

  • With your gift youth will be able to start their own businesses
  • With your gift we will provide job opportunities and income
  • With your gift youth will acquire skills on how to apply and find jobs
  • We need to train youth how to bake and help them with starting capital, so they can start selling bread in the area
  • The training includes but is not limited to teaching them how to bake/cook, budget, gross profit, net profit, expenses, accountability, feasibility and so on.
  • We need to train youths how to sew, and then partner with some Namibian schools for them to provide school uniforms, school tracksuits and school sport uniforms.
  • The training includes but not limited to teaching them how to sew, budget, gross profit, net profit, expenses and so on.
  • We need your gift to purchase materials
  • We need your gift to pay the trainers
  • We need your gift for starting capital
  • We estimated the total cost for baking project as $25,000.
  • We estimated the total cost for sewing project as $5,333.

We estimated $100 per month to pay an employment advisor to guide youth with their resumes and employment applications, as well as help secondary school students with their interests and career paths.

Could you support one of the projects?