In many rural communities, limited employment options push young people toward migration to South Africa and Botswana in search of a livelihood. For Lindokuhle Ndlovu, a young woman from Ward 11, WE-LEAP offered a different path — one built inside her own community.
Lindokuhle was one of 20 young women selected for vocational training at Phangani Vocational Training Centre. In the catering course, she learned to cook — and to run a business. With a loan from her Self-Help Group, she bought her first chickens and began frying and selling chicken in the style of the fast-food outlets she’d grown up seeing on television.
Rather than spend her profit, Lindokuhle reinvests and saves. She is now working toward her own fast-food outlet. She has since started training two other young women, sharing the skills that she gained from her training and helping to empower other young women from her community.
“I used to spend my days loitering around the shops doing nothing. But today my life has changed because of the support I received from HOCIC.”
— LINDOKUHLE NDLOVU
This transformation was made possible through the support of the Embassy of Switzerland, whose contribution to WE-LEAP is creating opportunities for women and girls in marginalised communities.
