The Lucha Lunako Organisation Profile (2025)

Introduction to Lucha Lunako: Empowering Youth through Employability and Entrepreneurship Lucha Lunako is a dynamic youth development organisation dedicated to fostering the growth and success of young people through tailored programs focused on employability and entrepreneurship. In a rapidly changing world, we recognize the importance

The Impact Report on our Foundations for Financial Freedom course offers an in-depth analysis of our work to empower youth toward economic independence. It highlights the urgent need for financial literacy in a national context of over-indebtedness, low savings, and conspicuous consumption. Lucha Lunako’s unique

The Lucha Lunako Annual Review for 2023 highlights our continued commitment to addressing youth unemployment and empowerment through a comprehensive, long-term approach to youth development. By focusing on whole-person development and behavior change, Lucha Lunako has made strides in creating sustainable programmes that equip young

Working together with Youth Development Collaboration Lab (YD Co-Lab), Lucha Lunako helped fund and project manage the development of the Youth Development Ecosystem Report 2023. Given both entities’ commitment to visibility and collaboration between actors in the youth development sector, this project was prioritised as

Equitable access to education is one of the pillars on which the solution to South Africa’s youth unemployment problem rests. But education comes at a cost; and when that education is at a tertiary level, those costs are beyond the reach of most of the

Our co-founder Alana Bond was recently featured in the second episode of the ‘Just for a Change’ podcast powered by the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship hosted by Kentse Radebe. The podcast dives into the role of young people in South Africa, re-imagining

Lucha Lunako partnered with the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a specialised academic centre which is part of the UCT Graduate School of Business. Together we launched a collaborative youth innovation platform to support young people with education, employment, self-development, and training opportunities.

At the beginning of 2021, South Africa recorded a digital population of 38.13 million. Statista also noted that an overwhelming majority (over 36 million) used mobile internet. While these figures paint a good picture that South Africa is highly connected, the question still remains on

Even at the best of times, our South African youth face a constant assault on their mental wellbeing, ranging from depression and anxiety disorders that emanate from a myriad of sources including poverty, joblessness, and violence. However, in the age of the Covid-19 pandemic, the

South Africa has yet again sunk deeper into the dark pit of unemployment, with the youth and future generations being hardest hit, magnifying the impact for years to come. Based on Statistics SA’s latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey (Q2 2021), unemployment had reached a record