Education Management - Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
South African Youth Co-operative Network (SAYCON) is a voluntary association of young people who fell that most of our socio-economic challenges can best be addressed through social entrepreneurship and co-operatives. The organisation was registered on the 10th of January 2014 as a non-profit organisation in terms of NPO Act No71 of 1997 and it is associated with the International Co-operative Alliance's World Youth Network. The South African Youth Co-operative Network (SAYCON) believes that through effective involvement with cooperatives, young people can work together with governments, civil society and other stakeholders, to overcome these challenges. Vision A South Africa that has sustainable youth-owned co-operative enterprises that are able to compete in the mainstream economy and operating in all sectors of our economy, which contribute to employment creation, poverty reduction and economic growth. Mission · Develop programmes with a potential to allow the participation of young people in entrepreneurship through the use of co-operative and social enterprises. These programmes should be aimed at economically empowering young men and women with special focus on unemployed graduates, out-of-school and disabled youth. · To partner with mainstream business and government in programmes aimed at youth economic participation through enterprise creation and development. · Playing a lobby and advocacy role in the youth policy arena Values SAYCON subscribes to the co-operative movement's wider values which are based on the values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity and solidarity. In the tradition of their founders, co-operative members believe in the ethical values ofhonesty, openness, social responsibility and caring for others.