Lulaway partners with Siyafunda Community Technology Centre

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Lulaway is proud to announce our recent partnerships with the Siyafunda Community Technology Centres. Several Lulaway Job Centres will be established in conjunction with Siyafunda, and we envision a long, successful partnership with these great organisations.

Lulaway is proud to announce its recent partnership with Siyafunda Community Technology Centre. Siyafunda Community Technology Centre is committed to the critical development of scarce ICT skills which are desperately needed in both the public & private sector. As the first ICT NGO to bring SAP ERP training in townships and rural South Africa, the foundation offers opportunities that were not previously accessible to black communities due to price, knowledge and distance. Bright youngsters from previously disadvantaged communities do not have to pay any money but are sponsored and supported by companies.

Lulaway offers Siyafunda Community Technology Centre a sophisticated & streamlined system to store trainees profiles and allow access to employers in a central manner. Each Siyafunda Community Technology Centre training site will be equipped with a Lulaway job centre. The result of establishing Lulaway Job Centres will allow for an easy and attractive method for employers to offer job opportunities to these talented youth.

In addition, Lulaway has recently partnered with the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality of the Gauteng East Rand. This new youth work placement initiative will incentivise corporates through the joint vision of Lulaway and Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality. We take this opportunity to thank all our partners for their support of the crucial work undertaken by Lulaway in addressing the unemployment crisis in South Africa.

Premier of Gauteng launches Tshepo 500 000

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Tshepo 500 000 – New hope for unemployed youth of Gauteng

The Premier of Gauteng, David Makhura, launched his new initiative, Tshepo 500 000 in a well attended event in Ivory Park last Thursday, December 11th 2014. This initiative aims to provide 500 000 unemployed youth with employment opportunities within the next 5 years.These opportunities will comprise of jobs within the private sector and public sector, internships and entrepreneurial opportunities.

At the event, attendees were directed to register onm the Lulaway platform in order to utilise the existing Job Centre infrastructure to reach the unemployed youth throughout the province

The Department of Infrasructure and Development is in charge of rolling out this initiative and will be working closely with Lulaway to identify the skills and skills shortages in the unemployed youth in Gauteng and subsequently match job seekers with opportunities that are relevant to their skills sets, as well as offer up-skilling programs for those lacking employable skills.

See video below of the Premier of Gauteng, David Makhura, speaking more at length about this exciting and ambitious initiative