Impact In Motion.
SHUTWWEP.
A registered NPO on a mission to accelerate the next generation of Black women leaders in rural South Africa. Founded on the belief that talent is everywhere — opportunity is not.
Real faces. Real fire.
Rural to unstoppable
Young women from Bakenberg village and surrounding areas of the Greater Mokopane — starting to realise their dreams and building businesses, acquiring skills and improving their future outlook that ripple through the whole community.
Skills that stick
Technical and vocational capabilities for real employment and job creation.
Supply chain ripple
Communities win as buyers, suppliers, employees and re-sellers.
Youth potential unlocked
Creativity and innovation harnessed under the hardest circumstances.
Young women leading
A vehicle for the acceleration of women and especially youth empowerment.
Since 2019, showing up.
From NPO registration in 2019 to enterprise development in 2026 — seven years of showing up for rural women and youth.
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18 February 2019
NPO Registration
SET HER UP TO WIN WOMEN EMPOWERMENT PROJECTS NPO is officially registered (NPO 223-222). The mission begins — a vehicle for the acceleration of women and youth empowerment in rural and emerging communities.
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June – July 2019
Schools Outreach & Career Guidance
Our first on-the-ground intervention. Career guidance sessions in rural high schools open young minds to pathways they had not been shown before.
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2020
COVID-19 & the National Shutdowns
Rural communities are hit hardest as South Africa enters its first national lockdown. SHUTWWEP pivots — documenting the impact on rural families, rallying support, and preparing for what comes next.
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2021
SHUTWWEP Re-Imagined & Vaccination Intervention
As the vaccine rollout begins, SHUTWWEP re-imagines its mission and launches a rural vaccination intervention — meeting communities where they are, with information and access.
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2022
DGMT Partnership — Ke Ready 2 Flex
In partnership with DGMT, SHUTWWEP leads the Ke Ready 2 Flex Youth Vaccination Drive. Hundreds of young people in rural Limpopo get vaccinated — a landmark public-health intervention led by youth, for youth.
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2023
SHUTWWEP Homework Campaign
A focused drive to help learners catch up on school work lost to virtual learning during COVID-19. Because no child should be left behind by a pandemic they had no control over.
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2024
Limpopo Department of Social Development Partnership
Partnering with the Limpopo Department of Social Development to implement community skills training programmes, work-readiness programmes, community safety programmes, and more.
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2025
Skills Training Programmes Delivered
A year of practical delivery — Security Training and Beauty & Nail Technician Skills Programmes. Real certificates. Real skills. Real pathways to income.
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2026
Enterprise Development for the Youth
The next chapter begins — formal enterprise development programmes for young people, giving them the tools, mentorship and networks to build businesses that last.
She's 18 to 35.
She's ready.
The Youth Enterprise Programme (Accelerated Youth Enterprise Development Initiative) is built for young Black women who are done waiting. We give them skills, tools, mentorship and the launchpad to build businesses that last.
Ready to set her up to win?
R50, R500, R5 000 — or an hour of your time. However you show up, you are part of her story.