Young rural women are the worst effected by unemployment in South Africa and they live in areas where there is little or no economic activity and/or development, are unskilled and lack the means of acquiring the necessary skills to compete for what few employment opportunities may exist in their local areas or elsewhere. In most instances they also lack the self-confidence and life skills to promote themselves effectively in the job market. Without assistance they are condemned to a life of government grant dependency and the hopelessness of poverty which contributes to social ills becoming ever more prevalent in rural South Africa.

SACT addresses these aspects throughout its training programmes by not only empowering them with technical skills but by promoting their sense of self-worth, their ability to determine their own choices, and their right to influence social change for themselves and others.