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Youth Employment Service (YES)

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About

Youth Employment Service (YES) South Africa is a high impact private sector youth employment program in South Africa, addressing the country’s youth unemployment crisis by empowering businesses to create jobs for unemployed youth. YES is a non-profit organization that receives no government funding and works with leading businesses in various sectors to provide 12-month quality work experiences for unemployed young people to become the future managers, skilled professionals, and entrepreneurs who will drive the economy forward. In return, businesses receive one or two levels up on their B-BBEE scorecard and / or integrate into their ESG strategies.

Founding year: 2018

Countries: South Africa

Themes: Jobs and Skills

 

Key Highlights

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YES and Microsoft collaborate to create AI skills platform for 300,000 youth - Microsoft and YES have developed a training platform that will provide AI skills to young people in YES’ apprenticeship program. The AI Skills Training Platform is designed to enable all young people to get access to, and awareness of AI – and be able to build skills from a Novice through to an Expert level.
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Youth4Tourism – The Youth4Tourism (Y4T) initiative is a groundbreaking private sector collaboration between the Youth Employment Service (YES), founding partner Sanlam, and a growing array of corporate partners. The initiative unites corporate South Africa to nurture young talent in tourism roles from field guides to photographers, with the aim of revitalizing the sector to boost economic growth. 
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Youth Employment Service (YES) ESG Awards – YES hosted the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Awards where they honor partners who significantly contributed to the S in ESG through job creation, economic progress and social development. The awards recognize social impact through job creation by private companies.