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About Meriting Youth Development

Empowering unemployed youth through accredited skills training and job readiness programmes since 2013

Our Core Principles

Integrity

Being open and honest with each other, based on self awareness and sensitivity towards others.

Respect

Respect for the dignity of each person, expressed through how we greet, work and resolve conflicts.

Trust

Based on integrity and respect, incorporating our motives and competence in completing tasks.

Unity

Enables us to become a spirited team with belonging and concern for mutual development.

Effective Customer Satisfaction

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.

Our Mission

Meriting Youth Development aims to provide jobless youth with quality skills thereby transforming them into responsible independent workers or employees. The name Meriting has a dual purpose since it is based upon Sotho for "in the shadows" which is where many young people feel they have been forgotten. In addition these young people are meriting their own development by committing to achieve their goals by completing the two-month course.

Our Goal

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.

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OUR IMPACT

See the Difference We Make

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.

Our History

Meriting Youth Development is an independent Non-Profit Organisation which has been running since 2013. Over 300 learners have graduated from our programme during this period.

300+ Graduates
100 Employed
100 Further Studies
100 Self-Employed

Meriting has 4 dimensions to its work with jobless youth:

1 Recruitment of new learners through a process of passing the selection criteria
2 Tutoring of the learners in a learnership programme which equips them with industry required skills
3 Assessment of learners through a rigorous process geared towards behaviour change
4 Integration of youth through interviews into the world of work and post course support
Looking to the Future

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.

WHAT WE OFFER

Short Courses

Meriting Youth Development will commence its tenth intake for the two-month job readiness programme to help young people become eligible for basic job roles. The programme contains a combination of hard and soft skills training to prepare students for the job market.

OUR BOARD

Peter Sadie

Peter Sadie

Board Member

Avril Naidoo

Avril Naidoo

Board Member

David Sadie

David Sadie

Board Member

Andre Thompson

Andre Thompson

Board Member

OUR STAFF

Zipho Ngxongo

Zipho Ngxongo

Programme Coordinator

Philisile Sibeko

Philisile Sibeko

Training Facilitator

Paulinah Matsobane

Paulinah Matsobane

Administrator

Shelton Chiorah

Shelton Chiorah

Skills Development Facilitator