Ground UP Academy Zakhele Manufacturing & Design

Learn to Earn is a skills development and job creation organisation seeking to develop people, especially unemployed people, socially, economically, emotionally and spiritually. Our skills development and training centres are based in vibrant Khayelitsha and the seaside town of Hermanus. Here, we endeavour to eradicate unemployment and other legacies of injustice in South Africa. Since 1989 we have trained more than 13 583 unemployed people with market-related skills. Zakhele Manufacturing & Design (a Division of Learn to Earn Development Enterprise) makes a range of beautiful conference bags, banner bags, cushions and placemats. These handmade high quality products are unique and reflect the positive atmosphere of the heart of Khayelitsha.

Sectors of Focus
- Sector agnostic
Services
- Conduct research on the sector to disseminate publicly (such as an entrepreneurship research report)
- Host events for entrepreneurs or entrepreneur support intermediaries
- Manage an incubator or provide co-working space for entrepreneurs
Nonfinancial Services
- Capacity development services
- Market linkages
Capacity development services
- Access to networks and partners
Market linkages services
- Access to new markets/customers
- Access to infrastructure
- Access to materials
Focus Population
- Rural entrepreneurs
- Base of the pyramid population
- Women entrepreneurs
- Minority or previously excluded population