Who we are
Intsika Youth Development is a non-profit organisation and your strategic partner in career and vocational guidance. Our pioneering programmes drive professionalism and transformation and help to make it a truly world-class and exciting environment in which to partner with and move South Africa forward.
Our mandate
Our mandate is to create career awareness about possible career paths and opportunities available to learners and promote comprehensive career development. We have been at the coal face of the revolution to promote and prioritise critical subjects that will place the majority of young people in the mainstream of economic development.
Strategic Goals
- To disseminate information to previously disadvantaged groups in order for our youth to make informed decisions on career opportunities and skills development opportunities.
- To support skills development initiatives that produce mid-level and high-level skills and transformation agenda.
- To facilitate initiatives to grow different sectors of economy enabling employability in the wider economy.
- To promote science, technology, engineering, mathematics and innovation (STEMI) subjects as crucial learning areas for tomorrow’s workforce.
Objectives
- Advocate Objective 5.3.1.1 of the NSDS Strategy III (information and career guidance) In order for learners to succeed they need to be guided prior to enrolment on both the best match of their interests and abilities to occupational requirements as well as on their best prospects for employment.
- To provide learners with career and vocational guidance that effectively supports their study choices and improve their employability.
- To encourage learners to participate in education, training and skills development programmes
Vision
To promote and prioritise careers that are scarce and in demand within different sector’s of economy.
Mission
To increase the flow of new entrants to economic opportunities and increase their chances of employment through partnerships and be a catalyst for career and vocational guidance.
Values
- Professionalism
- Ethics
- Making a difference
- Valuing people
- Innovation
Support My Future, My Career Expo and leave a lasting legacy
The adage it takes a village to raise a child is a clarion call to all humankind to collectively contribute in empowering the future generation with knowledge and skills that will go a long way to change their circumstances. When Hendrik Verwoerd introduced apartheid, he created within it an education system that would make black people “hewers of wood and drawers of water” by denying them opportunities to learn mathematics and physical science. As a youth bias organisation, we stand to change the status quoi and call on you to do likewise by contributing to this noble cause of changing lives.