Empowering unemployed youth through accredited skills training and job readiness programmes since 2013
The values that guide every programme, decision, and relationship at Meriting Youth Development.
Being open and honest with each other, based on self-awareness and sensitivity towards others.
Respect for the dignity of each person, expressed through how we greet, work and resolve conflicts.
Based on integrity and respect, incorporating our motives and competence in completing tasks.
Enables us to become a spirited team with belonging and concern for mutual development.
We strive to achieve excellence in our service delivery by listening to customers so that we achieve higher standards of quality. A simple measure of how well we are integrating integrity, respect, trust and unity will be the quality of service we give our customers both internally and externally.
The name Meriting has a dual meaning. It's based on the Sotho word for "in the shadows" — describing where many young people feel they have been forgotten. At the same time, every learner who joins the programme is meriting their own development, by committing to complete the course and change their own trajectory.
Meriting Youth Development aims to provide jobless youth with quality skills, transforming them into responsible, independent workers and employees. We are an independent Non-Profit Organisation, based in the Johannesburg CBD and running since 2013. Since then, we have trained over 300+ unemployed youth and helped place more than 450 of them into jobs, through free, SETA-accredited learnerships and short skills courses.
Meriting Youth Development will commence its twelfth intake for the job readiness programme to help young people become eligible for entry-level job roles. The programme contains a combination of hard and soft skills training to prepare students for the job market.
Watch how Meriting Youth Development is transforming lives and creating opportunities for unemployed youth across South Africa. Our programmes provide not just skills, but hope and a path to a brighter future.
Since 2013, we have helped hundreds of young people gain the confidence and qualifications they need to enter the workforce and build meaningful careers.
Meriting Youth Development is an independent Non-Profit Organisation. Over 300 learners have graduated from our programme since our first intake.
Meriting has 4 dimensions to its work with jobless youth:
We are hoping to expand our present programme from the Joburg CBD to other regions which desperately need similar projects. Interested parties who are in a position to co-fund these developments should get in touch with Meriting.
Our short courses are designed to prepare unemployed youth for the workplace. Each course is delivered in a practical, hands-on format and can be taken individually or as part of our full two-month Job Readiness Programme.
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