Income Generating Programme

The Cape Town Refugee Centre aims to facilitate a process whereby refugee and asylum seeker women and men can become self-reliant through exposure to practical and technical skills training. Acquring these skills allows them to further integrate into the local community while pursing their business and professional aspirations.

From 2003 to 2004, over 100 women and men were trained by the centre. With the assistance of various training agencies, half of the trainees gained employment and numerous others became self-employed.  As of 2008, less than 15 of those trainees were unemployed or had no stable jobs.

In 2005, more than 130 refugee and asylum seeker women and men were trained in a wide variety of skills. Since then, the Centre has been approached by 20 of the trainees who have expressed great interest in running income generating projects of their own.

Numerous individuals from the Income Generating Programme with already established small businesses are currently ready to expand their ventures. They have the intention of employing people from the same programme who have the necessary skills.

In order to fulfill this goal of enabling their businesses to expand and other trainees to become self-supportive, additional funds are needed to provide traders with financial assistance in the form of micro-loans.  Click here if you are interested in donating or lending support to this programme.

To Read about our clients Business Ventures click here.