About Us

Our Vision

“Youth driven sustainable community development. A better South Africa”

Our goal is to empower youth living in rural areas and supporting them so they graduate to tertiary with good career guidance, life skills, employable skills and a sense of self-worth.

Our Mission

“Mobilizing youth to accelerate the development of South African communities.

Our Work
We design, develop and make available spelling Programs for primary and High schools on a quest to improve English language proficiency for the students. Our program nurtures and encourages reading with understanding, an increasing vocabulary and proper spelling of words and knowing their rightful meanings.

We also partner with youth who realize the development needs within their communities and assist them to access fundraising platforms for implementing a YES Project within their communities or at their previous High Schools,volunteer capacity and sustainable project management skills to organize their community development solutions.

Our objective

·To promote community building through volunteerism

·To support the social innovative ideas of young people with innovative social capital tools and training.

·To raise the spirit of Ubuntu through social entrepreneurship

·To encourage young people to be self-empowered through innovation.

· To support youth with career building tools to enable them to contribute their skills towards economic development.

Our Service

• Grant Writing
• Fundraising and IT support tools
• Project management

Our core values

• Ubuntu
• Community
• Empowerment and training
• Volunteerism
• Innovation

Management Team

Sharon Rapetswa

Sharon Rapetswa is a 28 year old from the Limpopo Province. She is the founder of New Dawn Foundation, which operates in Dendron, Limpopo. New Dawn Foundation seeks to promote literacy and learning in the Limpopo Province with programs including a Spelling Bee and a Read-a-Thon. The aim of the organisation is to assist and enable primary school children to read by the 7th grade.

Sharon is a leader and a self-starter. She is also a businesswoman, an education enthusiast and a change maker; she is passionate about education, youth development and entrepreneurship. Sharon’s ultimate goal is to one day hold a prominent civic leadership role in South Africa. She is a 2011/2012 alumni of the Community College Initiative Exchange Program. Throughout her civic leadership career, Sharon has achieved awards such as the ‘University of Johannesburg Black Management Forum Phenomenal Women Appreciation Award 2013’, ‘Women in Leadership 2009’ at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, and is also a recipient of Michelle Obama's ‘Young African women leaders fund’ 2012.

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