Insights & Impact
by Steven | Sep 28, 2020 | Featured, Impact >Insights, Insights & Impact
At Harambee we are committed to keeping you safe, smart and kind. We’re producing a monthly digest of the most insightful articles on youth employment we’re reading, and have focused on the pieces we found to be most relevant and actionable. Time is scarce, so we’ve summarised the articles for you and shared our key takeaways.
Insights & Impact
by Steven | Sep 20, 2019 | Featured, Insights & Impact
In 2016, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner shot videos like this to present his company’s ambitious vision for a global “Economic Graph” mapping every worker, company, job, skill, and school…on the planet. Yes, all “three billion people in the global workforce,” Weiner...
Insights & Impact
by Steven | May 27, 2019 | Featured, Insights & Impact
In celebrating South Africa’s visionary companies and leaders committed to business as a force for good, Harambee received the 2019 Conscious Companies award for the Most Conscious NGO presented by Professor Mervyn King. The awards was accepted by Maryana Iskander,...
Insights & Impact
by Steven | May 15, 2019 | Featured, Insights & Impact
At 54%, South Africa has the highest youth unemployment rate in the world. At the forefront of this battle is Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, a not-for-profit organisation that finds jobs for young people across South Africa. Rob Urquhart, Head of Knowledge...
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by Steven | Apr 5, 2019 | Insights & Impact
“One language is poverty,” Annah told us. “Two languages is wealth,” she said, breaking into a smile. For a young woman who has been on the job hunt for nearly a year, she understood that despite having everything else employers were looking for, speaking English was...
Insights & Impact
by Steven | Mar 1, 2019 | Insights & Impact
We took a peek at the ITU’s (International Telecommunication Union – an agency of the UN) comparative price basket for a…