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OUR SOCIAL IMPACT
The Social Development Goals we work towards:
Goal: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Our Key Action Points:
- Offering professional upskilling training to incoming and existing staff
- We partner with multiple educational institutions to provide quality music education through marimba lessons.
Goal: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
Our Key Action Points:
- 100% Women-owned business
- 80% of our student body are women
- 80% of our staff are women/ non-binary
Goal: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Our Key Action Points:
- 28% of our staff live in low-income classified areas
- Our Rising Stars Program students are able to upskill and be employed by Marimba Jam after High School
Goal: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Our Key Action Points:
- 100% of staff earn hourly rates 75+% above minimum wage
- Job Growth Rate over 50% for full-time and part-time positions in the last 12 months
YOU FOR YOUTH CAMPAIGN
The You For Youth Campaign was started in 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 Pandemic. We saw how the pandemic left our most vulnerable communities devastated, which is why with the help of Siyakhula (NPO), we decided to start this initiative.
In line with our motto, “Finding harmony in community”, we distributed care boxes to youth in need. In 2020, We started this campaign in an attempt to empower, educate and inspire the youth of South Africa, with an emphasis on providing our beneficiaries with art-supplies.
Thanks to your monetary donations as well as other physical donations, we were able to bring a smile to 100 children’s faces, giving each of them access to goods such as coloring books, journals, khokis, art supplies, snacks, masks, sanitary pads, soap, lotion, games and more!
In 2021, we continued the You For Youth Campaign by distributing our care boxes to child and youth care centres for girls aged 13-18 years old. This year’s beneficiaries are YWISE, St Michael’s Youth and Childcare Centre and Ons Plek. Each box contained feminine hygiene products, notebooks, cosmetic products, toiletries etc.
The You For Youth Campaign now aims to continue every year, recognising communities in need and care packages that can empower and uplift these communities!
Support us by donating to the You For Youth Campaign Now!
Support our next You for Youth Campaign by donating through our Back-a- Buddy page!
