Our Focus
We’re a social enterprise that takes the unemployed youth in South African townships, trains them to become professional baristas, helps place them at a network of different coffee shops & businesses and facilitates the journey for those showing entrepreneurial spirit into owning and running their own modular coffee businesses.
Barista Training
Job Placement
Enterprise Development
Our Coffee Course
The Woza Coffee School gives these students access to the life skills, theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed for making and serving specialty coffee.
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Life Skills
Through a partnership with The Zanokhanyo Network, our students benefit from a 3-week long life skills course, which they have to complete and pass before starting the coffee course.
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Coffee Theory
The theoretical part of our coffee course is sponsored to us by Lobster Ink (an international hospitality training platform) and is based online with video tutorials and multiple-choice tests. To pass this section our students have to achieve 80% or more in all their tests.
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Barista Practical
Our facilitators assist them through this journey as they also get hands on experience for the practical component as they are guided behind the machines, grinders and coffee brewing devices.
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Job Shadowing
Once our students have finished and passed both the practical and theory parts of the course, we set them up with job/work shadow experiences at coffee shops and on our modular coffee stations.
