Youth employment and skills development program
Youth employment and skills development program
Youth employment and skills development program - South Africa
Is our education system teaching learners how to shoe horses when we are driving cars? With more than 10 million unemployed and a backlog of 3 million houses... are we training for the needs of the people and the country?
We propose a solution by combining three “problem areas” and transforming them into “opportunity”. The three key issues that we face in Africa are that of poverty, unemployment and the huge backlog of affordable homes.
This prompts the questions: -
- Does our higher education system produce unemployable graduates?
- Does our schooling system create unemployed youth after grade 12?
- Should we re-look at the antiquated 1900 English curriculum applied in schools today?
- Are what is taught relevant to what is needed?
- Should we not cater for children who are not mathematical or scientifically inclined?
- Should we not teach basic entrepreneurial skills?
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Not all children are mathematically inclined. Yet, if we measure children’s ability with maths and science as a yardstick of intelligence we may make them feel inferior and classify them as “stupid”. There are many careers that do not require maths and science as a base for a career and there are many examples of “success” without mathematics and science. Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs state the basic fundamental needs are FOOD and SHELTER. Based on this simple premise, it is obvious that JOBS are created producing these two fundamental commodities.
We believe that there should be three tiers of education:
We propose to build two new classrooms per school in South Africa to cater for those learners who are not mathematically inclined and wish to follow a career in either “Food” or “Shelter” at early school level, in order to address the long-term needs of South Africa and Africa. Empowering PEOPLE to help themselves.
Africa is a rapidly urbanising continent, which according to the
UN Habitat, is increasing at a rate of 230,000 people who are moving into cities
across Africa each week. Currently,
sub-Saharan Africa alone has an estimated housing deficit of 30 million units
and every year, the backlog of houses across Africa’s 54 countries collectively
increases by 4 million houses.
With the population of the African continent expected to reach a
staggering 2 billion people by 2050, almost twice the population number
estimated in 2010, it is a stark reality that every year, there will be more
and more people needing homes, over and above the current demand.
Creating work for the masses is vital - Globally |
Modular Building System
Decent quality housing is one of the key factors in the fight
against poverty and social exclusion. It is not just about putting a roof over
someone’s head. Academic research proves that access to a clean and stable home
implicates an improvement in security, health and education. Although the
extensive and many complex difficulties relating to the delivery of affordable
housing in Africa is well documented, the ever-increasing demand for housing
keeps mounting and continues to be a major concern. Projections by the United
Nations would indicate that 53% of Africa’s inhabitants would comprise the
urban population, of which 62% of city dwellers would reside in slums or
informal settlements. What’s more troubling is that it appears that the
incentive to move to the cities in Africa seems to be completely independent
from economic growth and development and this is not expected to ease in the
foreseeable future. There is no doubt that the challenge facing the continent is
colossal, but the question is whether conventional building methods are able to
cope with the ever-increasing demand for quality homes.
Moladi, a South African patented technology, invented by Hennie Botes in 1986,
makes housing accessible to low-income people through innovative and
eco-friendly technology. An award winning, NHBRC and bank approved system;
moladi combines construction with economic development - “Fight poverty unemployment and crime through housing.” Moladi offers training locally for the unemployed thereby creating jobs and empowering the community as a whole. Due
to the simplicity of the method, construction techniques and skills can be transferred in a short time. In this way, the communities benefit from
affordable shelter and entrepreneurs are skilled at the same time, creating employment.
In 2006 moladi was presented with the Eric Molobi Innovation Hub
Award in Parliament. We were invited by the Smithsonian Institute to exhibit at
the United Nations in New York and recently by the World Bank to Washington to present moladi as a “Housing for All” solution to the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
We currently export moladi to more than 20 countries and have
formed key relationships with the world’s largest cement producer, Lafarge and
Shelter Afrique with the aim of providing a more economical supply chain in the
housing delivery process.
The moladi team is passionate about housing and social development
and believe that the moladi building technology is a significant instrument to
overcome the following challenges:
- Reviving and establishing rural villages.
- Creating functionally integrated and balanced urban settlements.
- A key component and product to kick start the NDP Vision 2030.
- Training the unskilled and unemployed to build for the destitute.
- Creating skilled entrepreneurs in the construction sector.
- Fighting poverty and unemployment through shelter and
- infrastructure development, eradicating mud schools with permanent structures.
- Training and equipping inmates to enter the main stream economy.
- To develop an entrepreneurial spirit at school level
For more insight on what moladi does:
- Jobs producing food and shelter - Back to Basics - Link
- How to get South Africa working - Link
- Building for the FUTURE - Entrepreneur Magazine - Link
- Fourth Industrial Revolution | Housing Construction - Link
- EmpowerPEOPLE to help themselves - Link
- How to reduce the cost of housing construction? - Link
- Project Trinidad - Link
- Gauteng Education Department - Link
- Western Cape Education Department - Link
- World Economic Forum – Future of Construction – World Bank - Link
- Innovative Low Cost Housing Design Concept - Link
- Tanzanian court buildings modernisation - Link
- Revolution in building material - Link
- How to reduce cost of housing construction - Link
We look forward to an opportunity to present our holistic approach
in more detail and believe that with like minded support we can make a change in
South Africa. Welcome to contact us - www.moladi.co.za
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