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EMPOWERVATE TRUST PRIVACY POLICY INTRODUCTION The Empowervate Trust recognise the importance of protecting your privacy and personal information. The purpose of this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy” or “Policy“) is to protect your privacy and to comply with the Protection of Personal Information Act, No. 4 of 2013 (“POPI“).  Any capitalised terms used in this Privacy…

Media Release South African learners showcase their solutions on COVID-19 and societal issues 16 December 2020: Finalists from sixteen schools who come from eight provinces across South Africa presented their projects in the inaugural online Young Active Citizens Award 2020. “We’re all aware of the ways in which COVID-19 has turned life upside down, so…

Opportunity: Program Manager (Freelance or Contract) About Empowervate Empowervate is a youth development NPO that was registered in 2013. The flagship programme it runs, The Youth Citizens Action Programme (Y-CAP), was born out of Afrika Tikkun, a well-established NGO, in 2009, initially as a youth dialogue. When the national youth programme, which works through the…

South African learners are invited to share their ideas on how to get through the big issues of 2020 by entering the Young Active Citizen Award 2020. “We’re all aware of the ways in which COVID-19 has turned life upside down,” explains Amanda Blankfield-Koseff, Founder of youth development NPO Empowervate Trust. “And perhaps this is…

Yanelisa Menzangabom, YCAP Support Team member in KwaZulu Natal was selected to attend an exchange programme in the USA based on the recommendation letter Empowervate wrote for him as he is a volunteer who understands YCAP so well. Yanelisa writes: This piece of writing seek to report on my participation in the Study of United…