In partnership with ORT SA and YES (Youth Employment Services), Toyota has initiated the Toyota Project, aimed at imparting wisdom and knowledge to the country’s youth and tackling youth unemployment.
The Toyota Project is a YES work experience programme that will run for one year, from April 2021 to March 2022, and will take place at the Molweni Circuit in the Valley of a Thousand Hills, KwaZulu-Natal. One of the project’s main objectives is to expose the unemployed youth to the working world by placing them in schools affiliated with the Toyota Teach – Primary School Project.
ORT SA has successfully recruited and placed a hundred young people in 24 different primary schools, Vusimuzi and Gwadu-Zenex to name a few, to work as school support assistants.
In addition to the work experience that the youth are receiving, ORT SA will be extending a three-month Digital Skills Programme to 30 beneficiaries of the Toyota Project. The programme will start in May 2021 and end in July 2021. This programme aims to upskill the youth with relevant skills, matched to the digitized world of work, by using globally recognized platforms such as Cisco, LinkedIn & OpenWHO.
Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein once said, “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
The Toyota Project aims to exemplify this mentality by tackling youth unemployment head on and equipping people with the knowledge and experience they need to empower themselves.
