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Young. Resilient. Ready. · NPO 223-222

Young women.
Built to win.

SHUTWWEP is the launchpad for the next generation of Black women leaders in rural South Africa. Skills. Enterprise. No limits.

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SHUTWWEP Cohort 2026

300 Young women

18-35 Age range

Group of young Black people in South Africa

Young women empowered

18-35

Youth age bracket

Skills pathways

Rural-focused

What we do

Programmes built for the next gen.

Flagship

AYED Programme

Accelerated Youth Enterprise Development — technical and vocational skills to launch and run your own business. Ages 18–35.

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Skills

Scarce Skills Transfer

Learn the critical skills South Africa actually needs. Real training. Real certificates. Real jobs.

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Enterprise

Business Incubation

Tools, resources, mentorship and a community of founders who have got your back.

Ready to Launch your business?

Inclusive

Alternative Pathways

Not everyone wants to be an entrepreneur — and that is okay. We back your path too.

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Community

Rural Enterprise

Build local supply chains. When one business grows, the whole community eats.

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Innovation

Talent Harvesting

We find the raw talent that the system overlooks — and turn it into unstoppable momentum.

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Impact in motion

Real faces. Real fire.

Rural to unstoppable

More and more young women from Bakenberg village, Mokopane — building businesses, skills and futures that ripple through the whole community.

Skills that stick

Technical and vocational capabilities for real employment and job creation.

Supply chain ripple

Communities win as buyers, suppliers, employees and re-sellers.

Youth potential unlocked

Creativity and innovation harnessed under the hardest circumstances.

Young women leading

A vehicle for the acceleration of women and especially youth empowerment.

In the field

Moments from the movement.

Bakenberg · 2025

Skills Lab

Cohort 2026

Her voice

Stories that fuel us.

I walked in with a dream and no money. SHUTWWEP gave me skills, a mentor and the nerve to start my own business.

Nomsa Youth Participant · Bakenberg

They did not just train us. They saw potential in us that we could not see in ourselves.

Lindiwe Youth Beneficiary · Mokopane

The ripple effect is real. When one young woman starts a business, the whole community rises with her.

Koketso Youth Participant · Limpopo

They recognised that not everyone wants to be an entrepreneur. They backed my path too.

Lerato Alternative Pathways · Limpopo

Your impact

Fund the next cohort

R100 = one more young woman in the room.

Your support funds skills transfer, enterprise development and rural youth empowerment in Limpopo. Direct. Accountable. Real.

R5000 raised Goal: R250 000

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Plug in. Level up.

Donate

Once-off or monthly. Every rand fuels the next young woman's launch.

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Mentor or volunteer

Give an hour a month. Mentor a young founder. Change a trajectory.

Partner with us

Corporate CSI, B-BBEE socio-economic development, or in-kind support.

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Ready to set her up to win?

R50, R500, R5 000 — or an hour of your time. However you show up, you are part of her story.

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Young women. Built to win.