In a country like South Africa, where more than 25, 4% of our population, and over 50% of youth in informal settlements being unemployed, other alternates need to be identified other than placing beneficiaries into employment, hence It has been noticed that South Africans have natural entrepreneurial skills that are undeveloped, or not used.

GetOn aims to enhance the skills of small businesses through our entrepreneurial training, that incorporates personal and business developing with the individual focussing on a holistic approach to ensure we gain the success we envisage and to partake in radically transforming the economy through effective development and increased participation of SMME’s and Cooperatives.

The drive to develop entrepreneurs to reduce the unemployment rate and empower South Africans to produce and offer high quality products and services is of great need. We have a school system that puts all their emphasis on science, and maths, promising the youth of today they will all become doctors and scientists, but sadly this is a false promise, as a number of students finish school in the rural settlements with a matric pass but if tested at a grade 10 level maths and science they fail, and even if they qualify to get into university, they often can’t afford it.

GetOn Skills Development Centre adopted local high schools in Atteridgeville screening and accepting 15 students a year in Grade 11, and work with these students for two years until they complete matric. The programme started in 2016 with the first group showing success at the end of their matric year, with 7 of the 10 students starting small businesses.