The Siyakhula Computer School provides Affordable, Accessible, and High Quality computer literacy training to individuals from historically disadvantaged communities. The computer school operates as a locally owned (and managed) social enterprise creating sustainable employment by utilising traditional business methodologies to meet the very real social need for low-cost high-quality IT training.
Objective 1: Establish sustainable and replicable solutions to the low levels of computer literacy in impoverished communities.
Objective 2: Improve the employability prospects of students who utilise end-user computer literacy skills as a stepping stone towards further employment, learnership and/or employment opportunities.
Impact: 600+ students per annum (2010 figures). Read some of the stories here.
Sustainability: 80-90% self-sustaining
Employment Created: 4 Full-time positions, 3 Part-time positions
Current Branch Location: Ebony Park (servicing Tembisa and Ivory Park)
BREAKING NEWS – NEW BRANCH: Hatch establishes a New Branch in Diepsloot – details here!
The computer school is supported by LGIT Smart Solutions, a registered ISSET-Seta training provider and Gold-Certified Microsoft training partner.
