2022 Youth have traits and skills they should be using to their advantage – their energy, health, and digital skills.

For youth looking for ideas to launch businesses, they need to look at where there is the most disruption, says Lisa Illingworth, co-founder and CEO of FutureProof SA. This includes sectors such as retail, restaurant industry, entertainment, health and fitness. Where young people can have the biggest impact is in ensuring that they are not creating just one job for themselves but can at least create other jobs. - David Gluckman

Opportunities are available if you can deliver, connect and teach. Here are 10+ Business Ideas for the youth. 

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What You Need to Know About the Presidential Youth Employment Intervention 

The Presidential Youth Employment Intervention (PYEI) was launched in response to South Africa’s job crisis and forms an integral part of the government’s post-COVID-19 recovery agenda.

The intervention focuses on youth as this demographic was the hardest hit by the pandemic. 

PYEI is a multi-sector action plan working to address South Africa’s chronic youth unemployment challenge. It seeks to increase the number of earning opportunities created for youth and includes a range of priority actions to boost youth employment

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Business Ideas for Kids PLUS Successful Entrepreneurs Who Started Out Young

If you want to raise an entrepreneur start them out while they are young. This is Lisa Illingworth’s entire business model, that entrepreneurial thinking can be taught and children can make their business ideas real. 

“Kids are able to accomplish more than what we expect and should be given the freedom to try and experiment with business concepts, and who knows, possibly land on the one idea that proves successful. The underlying factor of any successful enterprise is to always solve a problem.”

Illingworth says the first step for parents who are helping their child to launch their own business, is to expand their thinking around what their children are capable of.

Here are some of the ideas that they have seen work for kids that have been through Futureproof’s program.

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