South Africa Volunteer Business Enterprise Internships

The Business Entrepreneurship Centre was created to provide practical experience for disadvantaged students of the Tertiary School in Business Administration College, coming from the townships of South Africa. It has since grown to help start-up and advise over 100 grassroots businesses in townships over the past 3 years.

As a business enterprise volunteer you will be asked to help achieve the aims of the Entrepreneurship Centre in a number of ways. Volunteers could find themselves involved in numerous tasks including:

• Working with business students from disadvantaged communities on community leadership projects as part of their curriculum
• Assessing and carefully selecting entrepreneurs with the potential to start and successfully run a business
• Training entrepreneurs from disadvantaged townships to build-up the businesses
• Planning the entrepreneurs’ ventures and nurture the projects in the critical start-up phase or early-stages
• Honing the entrepreneurs’ managerial skills as the business grows
• Helping the entrepreneurs to become independent as they start to succeed in the marketplace

This project requires applicants to be enrolled in their final year of a Business, Marketing, Advertising, Communications, or Law university course and requires a commitment of at least two months on the project.

As a volunteer you will learn to work in an emerging market with grassroots entrepreneurs. Volunteers work alongside South Africans who were previously disadvantaged due to the political history of South Africa. This placement offers the chance to learn about South African culture, entrepreneurship and business all in one experience.

Your South African host family is located in the modern and safe community of Pinelands which is a five minute walk from the Entrepreneurship Centre. Most of the entrepreneurs you’ll be working with arrive at the centre by train which also gives you easy access to Cape Town city centre.