Our Career Transition and Development Program finds its uniqueness in being incredibly agile and user centric. We focus our efforts in building holistic, individualised, experiential learning programs that create behavioural change change in the long term. In the past two years, we have changed 5,000 lives, impacted over 100 organisations, achieved a 45% referral rate and reached 22 counties. We prepare, place and support people into life-changing careers!
Our vision: A meaningful career and sustained well-being for every youth, anywhere in Africa.
Our mission: We transform education to employment systems to prepare, place and support people into life-changing careers that would otherwise be inaccessible.
“Employers face a range of problems in entry level jobs—difficulty finding skilled talent, lackluster on-the-job performance, and high turnover in important roles. We can help address all of these challenges with our unique approach to training and our determined young graduates.”
The Youth Cafe Career Transition Program in Numbers
Our two-pronged trainings
Formal Sector Skills Training
The program is designed for the youth, aged between 18yrs to 29yrs. It seeks to offer a comprehensive training to prepare the youth for the opportunities and challenges during the transition. Furthermore, it builds their confidence and skills to be more adaptable and competitive in the labor market. Additionally, the program seeks to identify transferable skills that can be nurtured in order to increase the job readiness. The program also strives to equip the participants with better understanding of the available job opportunities, while helping in tailoring the applications based on individual skills and experience. With the support of our experienced and qualified facilitators, the participants are guided with focus on their current education, career aspirations and transition options in exploratory and educational training and workshops.Furthermore, The Youth Cafe connects students with companies through job fairs and meetings to facilitate a student's transition into the workforce
NURTURING SKILLS!
Some of the skills trained include: Psychometric assessment and coaching, networking and prospecting, 21st century skills and learning, digital and financial literacy, design thinking, presentation skills and public speaking, critical thinking, Leadership and personal development, team work.
Informal Sector Skills Training
If your highest level of education was high school, primary or have never been to school and are jobless or working in a vulnerable job, this project is for you!
The Job specific training and internship program aims at increasing employment and earning opportunities for out-of-school youth aged between 18-29 years through various skills training thus enhancing your 21-century skills, behavioural competencies, and competitiveness in the job market.
INCRE
ASING OPPORTUNITIES!
Some of the training areas include: Motor vehicle and automobiles: fuel systems, machine repair; hairdressing; housekeeping; electrical and electronics; troubleshooting, customer service; Hospitality; retail sales; business marketing; transportation; construction; agribusiness; plumbing; design and tailoring; welding and metal fabrication; event planning; cobbler; bakery; handcrafts; cleaning services; leatherwork; bead making; painting; photography; hair and cosmetics.
In The Words Of Our Partners And Beneficiaries
“The Youth Cafe courses have a profound impact on our students. Not only do we receive endless positive feedback about the instructors, content, and activities, but our students leave their professional development classes as both strong and confident individuals and more effective employees. The Youth Cafe team is a joy to work with, they listen and understand our student and organisational needs, and always produce high-quality learning experiences in a timely manner.”
“I’ve seen The Youth Cafe “in action”, when they delivered some sessions in The Nairobi Garage on entrepreneurship and life skills. Usually, training are just PowerPoint slides and trainers talking. The Youth Cafe is so different, so interactive. They have a very special way of information exchange between trainer and trainee on equal level. It really empowers to learn, and helps people naturally pick out knowledge they want.
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“From the first glance, The Youth Cafe did not seem like the ideal opportunity for me. I wondered what it really was about and how the experience would impact my life. Yet still, I was encouraged to sign up and it has been an experience to tell. Becoming workplace ready was what I needed. The training has boosted my confidence and set me above the rest in terms of the skills acquired. I am now ready to step out with my head held high. The Youth Cafe offers the best transition point and space to grow.”
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