The YLED Programme is an aspirational youth development initiative that gives selected in-school learners the opportunity to have their leadership, interpersonal and entrepreneurship skills honed through different skills models: Life Skills, Entrepreneurship Skills and Leadership Skills. Run across 28 weeks, every Saturday morning, the learners are taught, trained and guided by a team who are committed to nurturing minds and developing leaders.
28 WEEKS OF GROWTH
NOVEMBER
Beginning in November and running through to January, YLED identifies and engages with schools to determine who would benefit from the programme. In addition, YLED presents their story to potential candidates and invites them to apply. The applications are then reviewed and in January of the following year, the cohort for the year is selected.
JANUARY
Beginning in November and running through to January, YLED identifies and engages with schools to determine who would benefit from the programme.
JANUARY
Beginning in November and running through to January, YLED identifies and engages with schools to determine who would benefit from the programme.
ADDITIONAL INTERVENTIONS:
Social Responsibility Initiative
The initiative is about giving back to the community in a practical manner. The aim is to get involved in real-world, problem-posing situations to change and improve the situation. To understand the value of contribution and giving to society/community. Promoting Youth Service. A group project to address a contemporary social issue that impacts negatively on local and/or global communities. Teams must identify a course and write a report that must convince the YLED team that the project is worthwhile. Persuade them that civic contribution and responsibility is possible in South Africa.
Multimedia Project
The aim is to capture the experience of the programme. It must be in a spectacular combination of pictures, sounds, words and images that convey the group and the cohort’s experience of the YLED Programme both inside and outside the classroom throughout the programme.
Positive Word
All the YLED learners have a positive word that two YLEDers will be presenting at the start and the end of the sessions until the end of the Entrepreneurship Challenge. Each week, two learners will present on the word allocated to them by the facilitator in their presentations they will include a story relating to the word as well as what they learned from the story in relation to the respective word. This is driving self and team motivation as well as improving the presentation skills of the participants.
Career Day
The purpose of Career Day is to provide a platform through which young people can be provided with Career selection skills and armed with tools to cope with the challenges they face on route to their career of choices.
Graduation
The purpose is to organise an exciting YLED Programme Graduation to certify the YLEDers with their participation certificates as well as award certificates of excellence to those young people that stood out.
Friends of YLED Initiative
An annual event where we update sponsors and friends of YLED on the progress of the programmes. The purpose of this initiative is to reaffirm that YLED is an initiative that is the resolution towards Youth Development and Entrepreneurship Development.
Youth Leadership and Entrepreneurship Development (YLED) is an award-winning, NGO that develops young people to position them for future success (in communities, academia, business and workplace). We endeavour to impart life skills for success and develop the entrepreneurial spirit amongst in-school learners and out-of-school youth from diverse communities and backgrounds to upskill and prepare them for the future.
OUR MISSION
To provide Youth Leadership and Entrepreneurship Programmes and interventions that are sustainable and leave a lasting impact on the lives of its beneficiaries and contributors.
OUR VISION
To empower a generation of leaders through innovative programmes and interventions that enhance young people’s chances of success
OUR GOAL
To be one of the leading Youth Development organisations in our country