No Limits Youth Development
No Limits Youth Development (NLYD) empowers vulnerable young people through skills training and mentoring to help them overcome the challenges of poverty and hopelessness and reach their full potential. NLYD works with the most vulnerable children, helping build resilience, confidence and sustainable healthy lifestyles in impoverished communities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
The floods in that area in 2022 had a major negative impact on the community with loss of lives and livelihoods. Disadvantaged young people face so many challenges:
Daily hunger
High levels of household debt
Domestic violence
Crime
Unemployment
Poverty
Unequal opportunities in education
Vulnerability to drug and substance abuse.
NLYD aims to educate and protect young people from these issues and develop their skills in food and environmental sustainability, small business practices and their spiritual life so they can step into a brighter future. It is also committed to bridging the gap between young people and senior citizens to strengthen social cohesion and understanding. Older people share life experiences and offer mentorship, whilst the youth share tech skills and support seniors with daily activities.
E3’s partnership:
Reaches 200 young people each year through life skills, leadership training workshops, mentoring and coaching.
Enables the young people to start vegetable gardens and chicken and pig-rearing projects through training and providing seedlings/animals.
Helps young people to set up and manage sustainable small businesses.
Provides school uniforms to 50 orphaned and vulnerable young people through Back to School.
Runs a careers expo for over 200 young people to help them apply to further education, explore careers and take next steps after school.
Grant from E3: £5,909
Pastor Brian Miyanda, Founder and Director
Helping young adults in business
Sphelele is 23 years old and he finished his school exams in 2020. Together, Sphelele and 7 other young people work together in a chicken project. The profits from their business are funding the renovation of a family house with 7 rooms. The group have also been involved in the rearing of 14 piglets, which have now been sold.
“When Pastor Brian met us, we had 400 chickens in our building, but it got demolished, so we constructed a simple structure to continue with the chicken project. We had to decrease the chicken numbers to fit into the new structure. We supply to businesses around Pietermaritzburg and even to caterers.”
“Although we are doing well as a cooperative, we are faced with challenges. There is a water shortage in the area and sometimes the chicks die due to a lack of water. We also face persistent loadshedding (power outages) in the area. We pay £150 a month in rent for the site we use so that reduces our profits.”
How you can help
Pray…
Praying for E3 partners on a regular basis brings you closer to the life-transforming work that is happening on the ground and is fundamental to our mission, helping us seek God’s wisdom and be effective in our partnerships and work.
Donate…
Your donation will go to where it is needed most or to a specific appeal like Back to School. We work hard to minimise the running costs of the charity so more of your donation goes to the work.
