Beckers & SOS Children’s Villages Help Youth Prepare for Working Life

Beckers has launched a cross-border partnership with SOS Children’s Villages through YouthCan!, the global employability program that helps young people prepare for working life. 

The partnership connects colleagues across countries while building on local expertise and existing initiatives.

Through career inspiration sessions, mentoring relationships, and practical training, the program helps young people develop the skills, confidence, and networks they need to enter the working world. 

For Beckers colleagues, the partnership offers two ways to contribute: shorter career inspiration sessions covering topics from CV preparation to workplace readiness, and longer-term mentoring relationships supporting individual young people over several months.

This initiative will start in South Africa because it combines a strong local need with an established YouthCan! Infrastructure and the practical conditions needed to launch from a cross-border pilot.

“This partnership gives us a practical way to connect the experience and knowledge of our colleagues with young people who are preparing for working life. At the same time, it gives us a shared global opportunity that can complement our local partnerships and enable more countries across Beckers to contribute to our ambition for children and youth,” says Åsa Larsson, Global Sustainability Manager at Beckers Group.

The partnership supports the Green Lights commitment to positively impact children and youth in the communities where Beckers operates.