At Work-Base, we focus on providing orphaned and vulnerable scholars and students with a solid base upon which they can build their careers. We do this through various tools, of which the main tools are:
Career Guidance
Group and individual sessions
The Work-Base Academy
Vocational training
Next? Workshops
Relevant life-skills workshops
Career Guidance
We work with children’s homes and schools across southern Africa, assisting their high school students to make wise study and career choices. This is done through workshops where students complete a range of assessments and get input on study and career opportunities.
We also do individual career counselling and help research best options for individual students.
The Work-Base Academy is built on the premise that young people have great potential, but that this potential needs to be drawn out of them within the right context and using the right tools.
Our focus with the Academy is on providing an intensive learning experience which challenges our students to grow in a key skill area, but that maximizes their potential by developing the whole person so that they can grow and flourish in their field. We use the following equation as a guide for all that we do:
CAREER SUCCESS = (CHARACTER + RELATIONSHIPS + CORE SKILLS) x HARD WORK
All of the Academy programmes thus focus on the following core building blocks:
Relationships
Character
Core Skills
Work-place Preparation
The Work-Base Academy
Next? Workshops
When entering the ‘real world’, many school leavers don’t know much about areas such as budgeting, finding accommodation/leases, interview skills, CV writing, the work-place, health and wellness, and more.
Next? Workshops invite young people to come and be equipped in some basic, yet very important, areas of life.
These workshops are done in a fun, interactive manner to facilitate maximum learning and connection.
For more information, send an email to dennisn@enjhb.org.