Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)
SDG 8: Decent work & economic growth
Description
Safaricom Foundation Economic Empowerment Programme (Wezesha). The programme aims to empower youth and women through skills training to enable them access economic opportunities in agriculture and digital skills.
Describe how this investment will support the company’s targets on SDG impact
The Wezesha Generation Programme aims to solve the problem of skills gaps on the one hand and youth unemployment on the other and aims to and provide unemployed youth aged 18 – 35 across the country with job-ready skills. We achieve this through programmes across five sectors: financial services sales, distributed sales, retail and restaurant, customer service agents and sewing machine operators. To date , we have graduated over 8 600 youth, 56% of whom are women, across 53 training locations in 18 counties in Kenya with 14 of these centres located in public and private TVETs.
