ABOUT SIYAKHULA

The Siyakhula Centres meet a number of pressing needs of contemporary South Africa:

• Provides affordable computer literacy training to individuals by charging a fraction of the market-related costs for Microsoft end-user training.
• Provides accessible training with regards to the locality of the centres and the level at which the courses are pitched given that 90% of Siyakhula students are first-time computer users and non-first language English speakers.
• Provides quality township-based training on the Microsoft platform with assessments administered by LGIT Smart Solutions
•  Provides affordable access to the internet.
• Creates sustainable employment through locally owned-and-managed computer centres that run as grassroots social enterprises.
• Course content is designed as a stepping stone towards further employment, learnership, study, and/or entrepreneurial opportunities.
• Fully functioning centres run training for in excess of 1500 students per annum across 5 branches