Youth Digital Skills Training & Reskilling

a South African registered non-profit Organisation committed to building long-term and scalable solutions to youth unemployment and up skilling in the digital age.

The Covid-19 pandemic brought to the forefront the myriad of existing barriers to employment in a digital age: lack of access and connectivity, a digital divide across regions, and the high cost of conventional four-year degrees to prepare people for the digital workforce. The Youth and Women in particular bear the brunt of labor market disruptions, where under- and unemployment often intersects along the lines of gender, race, environment, class, location, and education.

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Yet, there’s also an opportunity if we prepare the workforce of the future. In the midst of all this, MAJOZINI YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME has leveraged remote and online opportunities for digital skills training, upskilling, and reskilling. In some areas, the shift to a virtual workforce has increased access and improved leveling the playing field.

By democratizing work from anywhere and reducing location bias, people more especially the Youth and Women in particular can access more training, digital tools, online work opportunities, and virtual education than ever before without leaving their homes.

We aim to adopt and accelerate digital innovations in software, communications, hiring, training, management and we will achieve all our objectives via virtual instruction and learning models.

While some of these innovations-by-necessity have accelerated rapid digital technology transformations, we know that inaccessibility and exclusion remain major barriers to entry into the digital workforce, especially for the Youth, women, rural communities, and historically underserved groups.

MAJOZINI YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME'SO OBJECTIVES ARE TO:.

1. Prepare those entering, re-entering, or who are already in the workforce for the future of work through affordable and equitable digital skills, training, and employment opportunities.

2. Reduce inequalities in the digital workforce for historically underserved groups through improved hiring and retention practices, skills assessments, training, and employer education and engagement.

3. Provide more equitable access to the digital workforce for all, including those lacking connectivity, those who are differently abled, and those with undervalued talents.