Solar powered coffee: Trailers help create much-needed jobs in Cape Town
Energetics SA, the renewable energy arm of CHS Eco Technologies, which was established by Leon Badenhorst in 2005, has just launched a Non-Profit Organisation, Cups for Life, an empowerment programme for dynamic, mostly young, South Africans.
The programme aims to identify, train and empower potential entrepreneurs who cannot find work or who struggle to get into the employment market.
Within a year, if they successfully complete the training, the trailer will become theirs. It will operate on a full franchise principle where the owner will work for him/herself. Each franchisee will appoint at least two assistants, who will be paid from the earnings of the franchise. The franchisee will also pay 10% of the earnings into the programme and must be willing to pass the training they have received on to new candidates, thus “paying it forward”.
The programme will also assist in additional job creation as it requires about ten workers to create a trailer from start to finish.
Cups for Life will approach companies to advertise their business on these trailers, and, in so doing, create a snowball effect by helping to build the next trailers.
Source: biznews.com