Welcome to Mokupo Foundation
Introduction and formation of Mokupo Foundation 

MF was started more than fifteen (15) years ago by Pascalis Mathealira Mokupo. The project started as a gifting gesture where clothes, food and toys are handed to the communities in and around the village Makhalong, Phororong and surrounding arears every December. This is an idea which the late Mrs Matsehla Mokupo who adopted the founder from KZN used to gift people every Christmas where music and food would be provided to the community hence the idea of “Ha Matsehla” was coined.

 

The festivities used to run from Christmas until the last day of December every year where the community would gather for New Year’s Eve celebrations with music, drinks and food. 

 

Since then, the founder has made this his own project in memory of his late parents and the outmost tangible need to support the community who raised and welcomed him from a tender age. It is a form of giving back and saying thank you for their good. MF has gradually expanded to other areas like Maseru and  Mapoteng by going beyond gifting but also uplifting and being an integral part of the communities such as in sports, school and churches. 

 

MF is a not-for-profit, community-based development organization that aims at achieving youth and women development, sustainable development, helping old age people and the underprivileged through providing services, programs, and projects to improve the economic standings and to be self-sufficient on projects that are self-sustaining and community driven. It seeks to create new educational, rehabilitation, and vocational training opportunities, followed with mentoring, guidance services and project supports in the following areas:

·       Subsistence farming projects;

·       Educational projects (primary and high school);

·       Small community mining projects;

·       Child welfare projects;

·       Water conservation projects;

·       Sports development and support;

·       Community based health projects (clinics and homecare);

·       Nature conservation projects;

·       Information technology; and

·       Harnessing and preserving cultural identities and traditions.

Vision

Empowering the community to be self-sufficient, to build the youth to become the most-productive components of the community and to play an effective role in the development process in order to become future leaders and ambassadors of MF and the community at large.  

Mission

The MF adopts a noble mission that expresses its commitment towards the society in general; youth, women and underprivileged which aims at making a sustainable and positive change through the following:

·       Targeting the youth and community with awareness and advocacy programs to strengthen their commitment to the society and to cultivate their sense of responsibility to their communities,

·       Targeting the job-seeking youth and community members with effective skill-building and rehabilitation programs that respond to the needs of the labour market, to improve their employment prospects and self-sustainability,

·       Using MF's extensive network of business relation to facilitate the youth's employment and community upliftment,

·       Providing continuous follow-up and mentoring services to employed youth to help them advance their careers and self-sustain the community, and

·       Advocating the concept of voluntary service with the graduating youth to encourage them to utilize their job-waiting period in providing voluntary relief and community services to needy communities and also creating a self-sustaining community.

Objectives

The MF conducts its activities to achieve the following objectives:

·       Cultivating basic ethics and values with the trained youth (citizenship, rights and obligations, work ethics, etc.),

·       Improving the youth's employment prospects, through training and rehabilitation,

·       Creating local and regional employment opportunities, through linking the trained youth directly to potential employers,

·       Advocating Corporate Social Investment (CSI) through encouraging employers to finance, train and hire trained youth and skilled persons,

·       Building a replicable model for the reduction of youth unemployment, achieving a goal that seeks self-sufficient families and fight hunger, and

·       Strengthening the Local-International partnership to empower the youth, enhance their social involvement, and reduce unemployment amongst communities.

Mokupo Foundation is a civil society organization committed to the

concepts of Equal Opportunity and Non-Bias. We do not practice any bias

between the users of our services based on race, religion, nationality, colour,

political or social affiliation, territory and cultural or intellectual background.