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,
·
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