Project upskills youths
HOUGHTON – Toyota in collaboration with ORT SA and YES have initiated the project.
Collaborative partnerships are set to tackle South African youth’s unemployment rate.
In partnership with Ort SA and Youth Employment Services (Yes), Toyota has initiated the Toyota Project that seeks to impart wisdom to the youth and centres itself on decreasing South Africa’s youth unemployment rate.
Ort SA assists youngsters from a number of areas, including Diepsloot.
According to Milani Falitenjwa of the Ort SA marketing team, the Toyota Project is a Yes work experience programme that will run until March 2022 and will take place in KwaZulu-Natal. Falitenjwa explained, “One of the project’s main objectives is to expose the unemployed youth to the working world by placing them in schools affiliated with the Toyota Teach Primary School Project.”
He added that Ort SA had successfully recruited and placed a 100 youth in 24 different primary schools to work as school support assistants. “In addition to the work experience that the youth are receiving, Ort SA will be extending a three-month digital skills programme to 30 beneficiaries of the Toyota project.
“The programme will start in May 2021 and end in July 2021. This programme aims to upskill the youth with relevant skills, matched to the digitised world of work, by using globally recognised platforms such as Cisco, LinkedIn and OpenWHO.”
He quoted theoretical physicist Albert Einstein who once said: ‘Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.’
“Without fail, the Toyota project is not only embodying [Einstein’s statement], it sheds light on the fact that knowledge and experience are vital when alleviating unemployment in South Africa.”
