ABOUT US:


The MF aims at achieving the above goals through:


·       Studying the skill/qualification needs of the local and regional labour market,

·       Training community and the youth to equip them with such skills and/or qualifications,

·       Equipping the community and the youth with the success-making ethics and values, such as honesty, loyalty, commitment and punctuality,

·       Playing an intermediary role between potential employers and job-seeking youth and community to facilitate job placement,

·        Utilizing the energy and the skills of the job-waiting community members and youth in providing community and relief services wherever needed in Lesotho and South Africa, to build the concept of volunteer work and provide the much-needed services to needy communities at the same time,

·       Encouraging the job-seeking community members and youth of all professional disciplines to improve their employability by achieving excellence and practicing professionalism in their practice,

·       Setting a positively suitable environment to cultivate the concept of community training and empowerment with employers, to improve the community's training opportunities, both before employment and on-the-job after employment,

·       Supporting employers in fulfilling their human-resource needs through providing community recruits possessing the needed skills to help employers expand their businesses and their contribution to the economy,

·       Providing continuous support to the graduating youth, after job-placement in the form of consulting and mentoring services, and

·       Making a meaningful contribution in reducing unemployment , especially amongst the youth in RSA and Lesotho.

 

Target Group(s)

 

The MF, through its Capable Initiative, targets job-seeking youth of both sexes, within the age of 18 and above, giving priority to those within lower income brackets, minorities, and the less opportune, including youth with manageable disabilities. MF also takes interest in communities from geographically remote areas that lack basic services.

Through the above, MF's ambition is to:

·       Achieve success and efficiency of its programs to motivate the public and private sectors, as well as civil society organizations to adopt similar models that will eventually become the cornerstone for a flourishing profitable industry to find career-colleges with labour-market responsive programs, technical and consulting support services,

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Further motivate private and public educational institutions to adopt the above-mentioned model through making its successful training programs available for such institutions' use and topping that with  rights.

technical and consulting support services,

·       Widen the scope of training activities, both in size and variety, to respond to the labour market's needs in all fields, and

·       Adopting partnership with all institutions working in fields as a concept, providing technical support to such institutions where needed, and making ALL its programs available for use to all organizations willing to sign agreements to preserve MF's intellectual and copy.

 

Target Population

 

Below are the foundation’s targeted populations both in RSA and Lesotho:


·       Youth;

·       Women; and

·       Indigenous (herders, traditional healers etc)

 

 Focal Areas

 

The following are the focal areas of the foundation:


·       Conservation of biodiversity;

·       Climate change;

·       International waters;

·       Land degradation and sustainable forest management;

·       Chemicals; and

·       Embracement of technology.

 

Expected Results of the Foundations’ Interventions

 

As a foundation, we anticipate that MF’s projects interventions to have the following desired results:


·       Capacity building;

·       Applied research and policy analysis; and

·       Information dissemination, networking and policy dialogue