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Programmes

What a learner actually gets

Four programmes that run through the year. Learners can be in more than one at a time — most are.

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High-school learners · Weekly sessions

STEM & Future Readiness

Hands-on coding, robotics and digital skills. Learners don't just use technology — they take it apart, build with it, and fix it when it breaks. This is the same coding and robotics content now being rolled out in schools nationally, delivered by people who know these learners by name.

  • Coding
  • Robotics
  • Digital literacy
  • Problem solving
  • Project work

All learners · Weekly

Wellbeing & Leadership

Skills don't stick when life is unstable. This programme runs alongside everything else — life skills, group support, and leadership roles that let learners practise responsibility somewhere safe before they need it somewhere hard.

  • Life skills
  • Peer support
  • Leadership roles
  • Safe space

Grade 8 through matric and beyond · Long-term (multi-year)

Tertiary & Career Pathway

The long game. We start before learners think they need to, because subject choice in Grade 9 quietly decides what's possible in Grade 12.

Grade 8–9:
Foundations, study habits, subject choice guidance
Grade 10:
Career exploration, matching interests to study pathways
Grade 11:
Bursary research, application prep, NBT planning
Grade 12:
Applications, bursary submissions, NBTs, placement support
  • Subject choice
  • Bursaries
  • Applications

Young adults from Langa · Full-time

Current Future Leaders (CFL)

Our answer to what happens after matric. Young people from Langa take on real roles across both organisations — design, communications, grant writing, facilitation, operations — earning while building the experience that a first job usually demands and never offers.

  • Paid roles
  • Real responsibility
  • Mentorship
  • Portfolio building
Learners gathered outside the painted container classrooms of the Hub in Langa

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