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Harambee is a South African nonprofit that connects first-time job seekers to employers through a mobile-based network. Founded in 2011, it has placed over 100,000 young people in jobs and received several grants and awards.
Youth unemployment is the unemployment of people between 15 and 24 years old, who face different challenges and outcomes than adults. Learn about the global trends, factors and impacts of youth unemployment, and how it varies across regions and countries.
The Youth Employment Services (YES) was established in the late 1960s in Toronto. The founding of the organization is associated with employment in Canada. [2] In 1998, YES opened Canada's first Youth Business Centre to provide young entrepreneurs with individual business skills training and help them secure start-up loans. [3]
The burden of many of these inequalities falls on South African youth in terms of education, employment, poverty, and health outcomes. [6] Previous government policies in South Africa have been unfavourable for twenty-first century youth, diminishing their ability to engage meaningfully in socio-economic and political activities of society. [2]
KL-YES stands for Kennedy Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Programs, fully funded by the U.S. Department of State. It offers scholarships for high school students from over 40 Muslim majority countries to study in the U.S. or abroad, and for U.S. students to study in selected YES countries.
The department of the South African government responsible for matters related to employment, including industrial relations, job creation, unemployment insurance and occupational health and safety. Learn about its history, functions, budget, programs, and key documents.
Learn about the history and current status of social welfare programmes in South Africa, from the earliest poor relief in 1657 to the post-apartheid Reconstruction and Development Programme. Find out how social welfare programmes are funded, delivered and evaluated in the country.
The first conference of the youth league was in March 1944 and it was attended by 200 people. The ANC had deployed Selope Thema, activist and former South African Native National Congress secretary, to open the congress. Albertina Sisulu, the wife of Walter Sisulu, was the only female present.