The Milpark Foundation gets Kuyasa learners on board
21-SEP-09
The Post Graduate Learnership for Unemployed Youth, known as the BANKSETA Kuyasa Programme was launched in 2005. This is a post graduate programme to give unemployed graduates the opportunity to gain practical skills.
The learnership makes use of the infrastructure created by the BANKSETA Letsema Programme and is fully funded by the BANKSETA.
The Kuyasa Learnership was awarded to Milpark Business School for 2009 and 140 learners were recruited. Learners were recruited nationally and placed in Gauteng (Johannesburg and Pretoria).
Learners who complete the learnership successfully at the end of 2009 will achieve a Certificate in Management Development (NQF Level 5).
Social Responsibility Drive
The learners on the 2009 Kuyasa Learnership have become involved in a social responsibility project in conjunction with the Milpark Foundation that set out to donate proceeds to pre-identified local beneficiaries.
The purpose of this project is to teach the learners about social responsibility issues and enable them to understand that they too are the beneficiaries of a special social responsibility programme.
What have they done so far?
The learners had various fundraisers (selling cake, vetkoek and popcorn on campus). Each learner was handed a donation list and most lists were received back. They have raised almost R7800 so far, and there are some pledges outstanding, including the Standard Bank of South Africa and Milpark Business School’s pledge to match the amounts that the Kuyasa teams generate.
All proceeds will be donated to Guild Cottage in Johannesburg. Guild Cottage was started in 1907 as a home for orphans and children in distress and has developed over the past 20 years into a treatment centre for sexually abused and traumatised children.
Milpark Foundation – In Brief
The Financial Services sector has committed itself to transformation, and has formalized its framework in the Financial Services Charter. The Charter sets down specific equity targets for employment in the sector. All Foundation activities are thus guided by the aims and targets in operation within this sector.
Who are the beneficiaries of the Milpark Foundation?
The beneficiaries of the Foundation will be drawn from previously disadvantaged communities who wish to enter the Financial Services sector as highly skilled and suitably equipped individuals. Additional programmes to assist in the career development of those already in the sector will also be considered in time.
Learn more about the Milpark Foundation.
