Alumni-Led Career Development and Youth Empowerment Initiative
From Learning to Opportunity through Mentorship, Career Development and Youth Empowerment
A six-month pilot that mobilizes 15–20 former alumni as mentors, role models, and opportunity connectors to support 300 adolescents and young people in making informed education, career, and livelihood decisions. All 300 participants take part in structured career-development, transferable-skills, and career-exposure activities, while around 150 priority participants receive intensive small-group mentorship, individual Career and Transition Plans, and targeted referrals to education, training, employment, entrepreneurship, and livelihood opportunities.
300
Young people reached
15–20
Alumni mentors trained
150
Receiving intensive mentorship & Transition Plans
6
Month pilot programme
Goal
To empower students and young people to make informed education, career, and livelihood decisions, and to improve their transition from learning to productive, dignified opportunities through alumni mentorship, career development, and youth empowerment.
Approach
- Alumni mentorship as the central delivery mechanism, with selected alumni trained in mentorship, safeguarding, professional boundaries, and referral.
- Career awareness and self-discovery sessions covering personal strengths, aspirations, vocational pathways, and emerging opportunities.
- Individual Career and Transition Plans for priority participants, with small-group mentorship on confidence, goal setting, and professional behaviour.
- Transferable-skills sessions in communication, teamwork, leadership, financial literacy, digital awareness, and workplace readiness.
- Career exposure through professionals, entrepreneurs, employers, and training institutions — career talks, panels, and enterprise visits.
- Targeted transition support connecting youth to further education, TVET, apprenticeships, internships, employment, and entrepreneurship.
Expected Results
- 300 students and young people participating in structured career-development and youth-empowerment activities
- 15–20 alumni trained and actively engaged as mentors, role models, and opportunity connectors
- 150 participants completing individual Career and Transition Plans
- 240 participants showing improved understanding of career, education, and livelihood pathways
- 200 participants demonstrating improvement in at least three transferable competencies
- At least 100 transition-age participants taking a documented next step toward education, training, or employment
