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Employability Programme Update: Siphokuhle’s Journey

Employability Programme Update: Siphokuhle’s Journey

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Employability Programme Update: Siphokuhle’s Journey

We’re excited to share an update from the Employability Programme, which provides a different career pathway to young people seeking employment without venturing down the entrepreneurship route.

This week, Siphokuhle, a young resident from Masakhane, spent time at Green Futures Nursery and in the Walker Bay Nature Reserve. She learned through observation and practice how to work in a nursery, a landscaping team, and an invasive plant clearing team. With a natural interest in agriculture, Siphokuhle found this workplace experience enormously helpful and inspirational.

An interest in plants, mastery of confidence and life skills, a good reference, and the opportunity to observe teams at work often provide all the momentum needed to secure permanent employment.

Employability Programme Update: Siphokuhle’s Journey

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Grootbos Foundation is a registered non-profit organisation in Gansbaai committed to conserving the Cape Floral Kingdom and uplifting the communities that reside within it. The foundation protects more than 22,200ha of fynbos landscape and biodiversity on Grootbos Private Nature Reserve and the Walk...

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