Impact Report: Foundations for Financial Freedom (2024)

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

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 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

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.

The Youth Covid-19 Quick Poll by Lucha Lunako aimed to gather insights from young people aged 18-34 on the impacts of the Coronavirus and lockdown, as well as their feelings about the future. With over 800 young people participating via WhatsApp from across the country,

To shape youth development policy, investment and future interventions, we propose a new holistic youth development and support framework that can yield both an immediate benefit to the individual, but importantly also influence and affect the individual’s long term trajectory towards a successful and fulfilled

Our Key Guiding Principles for youth development are rooted in the belief that every young person possesses inherent value, talent, and a purpose to discover and enjoy. These principles emerged through thoughtful discussion and analysis of successful youth development programmes, aiming to create a framework

Without underestimating the extent of the challenge South Africa faces in developing our youth, reducing the youth unemployment rate substantially and driving towards decent work and ultimately, career opportunities, for the majority of our young people, we inherently believe that our youth are talented and