We offer skills training to youth between 18-25 whom have completed matric and have a passion for a successful future. Applications taken all year round.
The Ray Mhlaba Centre is not a government funded organisation therefore we rely solely on the support and generosity of private donors to continue operating as a successful Training Centre. To date we have raised a remarkable R8 million for the construction of the Centre, Training Workshops, Coffee Shop and Conferencing Venue, along with the equipment, facilitation and accreditation to create and maintain our training programs.
We offer skills training to youth between the ages of 18-25, who come from children’s homes, have lost one or both parents, who live in households with no formal income and/or come from child-headed households. Upon completion of our training programs we endeavor to assist in obtaining employment for our students. Over the past nine years we have successfully trained 860 students of which 81% have gained meaningful employment either in the formal employment sector or as entrepreneurs.
Our purpose is to offer deprived, underprivileged, vulnerable and displaced youth in society the opportunity they deserve to further their education and allow them to be granted the same opportunities in life as others more fortunate; To offer them skills in a variety of employment sectors that will equip them for life and enable them to progress to accomplish a successful future.
Our aim is to reduce poverty and unemployment by providing skills training programs to those outside the formal education system, enabling them gain a valuable qualification that will assist them in securing formal employment or becoming self-employed. We also offer assistance in obtaining viable solutions to assist students in addressing social challenges.
We offer a variety of SETA Accredited and Entrepreneurial Training Programs in the below areas:
- Woodwork & Upholstery
- Needlework & Crafts
- Hairdressing
- Hospitality Studies
- Bakery
- Early Childhood Development
- HIV/AIDS & Palliative Care
- Information Technology & Computers (built into all vocational training programs)
- Life Skills – Ready for Success (built into all vocational training programs)
