How disability learnerships can help combat unemployment

With the month of November marking Global Disability Month and 3 December being International Day of Persons with Disabilities, it’s a good time of year to reflect on how we can empower people with disabilities, while also helping them to play a bigger role in our economy.

Participants in the recent Lewis learnership

Previous census data published by Statistics South Africa indicates that the national disability prevalence rate in our country is around 7.5% of the total population.

Stats SA further found that “persons with severe disabilities experience difficulty in accessing education and employment opportunities.”

“Households headed by persons with disabilities were found to have…

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