Learn to Earn Khayelitsha

Established in 1989, Learn to Earn (LtE) is a skills development organisation, working with unemployed people from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. With its motto of ‘a hand up - not a hand out,’ LtE seeks to develop people, especially unemployed people, socially, economically, emotionally and spiritually. The vision is ‘to eradicate unemployment and other legacies of injustice in South Africa and Africa’. Through providing a program that recognizes human dignity and the human right to live a meaningful life, the organisation aims to assist individuals to regain their self-respect. It does this by empowering them to provide for themselves and for their families.