Light of Nation Youth Projects

Light of Nation Youth Projects
Category: Charities & Donations, Community Centers, Community Services & Organizations, Youth Organizations

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  Business profile

  Community Development Organisation
  Light of Nation Youth Projects is a skills development organization, it was established to respond to the variety of social challenges that the youth, women, and people living with disabilities encounter, who are mostly from underdeveloped communities through employable skills.
  
  KEY OBJECTIVES OF THE ORGANIZATION
  
  -Improve the quality of life in the communities we serve by making available all productive resources for young people to freely use to access economic opportunities.
  -To empower the youth, women and people living with disabilities with vocational skills that will positively influence their own development and create a sustainable livelihood for them.
  -The provision of educational support programs under sports, human rights, HIV/AIDS gender-based violence, arts, culture, and heritage etc.
  -Educate our beneficiaries regarding generating their own self-employment through entrepreneurs’ programs and mentorship.

  SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
  We are offering the following skills:
  -Business Skills – End user Computer and Merchandising
  -Technical Skills – Ceiling and Partitioning
  -Arts and Culture programs – crafts, music, dance, theatre, and visual arts
  -Heritage preservation information sessions and workshops

  JOB APPLICATION SKILLS
  This is a compulsory training for any of our beneficiaries enrolling in any of our programs. With such skills, our beneficiaries are able to build and maintain productive relationships at the workplace. They’re equipped with real entry level and transferrable skills that builds a positive attitude expected from them by employers in order to build a healthy and productive work relationship.
  
  The placement department then takes the responsibility of building partnerships with companies in need of the skills provided at our centre, hence assisting the trained beneficiaries for job placement whilst freely recruiting for companies and positively boosting their B-BBEE scorecard.

  NATIONAL GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE PROGRAM
  Seeing how gender-based violence is a pandemic, we nationally respond to it through GBV educational workshops, national awareness campaigns, gender-based violence response community dialogues and we make referrals for psychosocial and counselling support for survivors and victims.