Professional Services Company Investment Opportunity in Johannesburg South, South Africa

- Female designated entity engaged in the transformation of the lives of specially-abled people by providing diversity & inclusion solutions to clients that make a significant impact on client productivity and bottom line.

- We have successfully completed nine projects and intend to take up four more this year.

- Have signed up big corporates such as Ericsson, Britehouse, and the Development Bank of Southern Africa in the years we have been operational.

- We have successfully placed more than 350 of our deaf candidates in various programs including skills development, employment equity, and enterprise development. This success has been achieved in spite of exclusive practices in the market against deaf employees. We have a strong database of more than one thousand deaf candidates still to be placed.

- Deaf candidates have been placed in various sectors including the following; hospitality, construction, ICT, electoral operations, food and beverage, laboratory, health, logistics and warehousing, manufacturing, and transport.

- We have produced a core of 16 deaf software engineers and are training 35 more (this is no small feat given the challenges with deaf education in South Africa)

- We aim to expand on our ICT offering and we are currently developing an e-learning system using open source, that will be developed by our deaf software engineers.

- We plan to expand into aquaponics farming to provide employment opportunities to our deaf candidates and leverage food security in our country.

- We have witnessed steady growth in our revenue from ZAR 4.5 million in the 2018/2019 financial year to ZAR 9.2 million in the 2019/2020 financial year. With the right investor on board, we project growth of up to ZAR 50 million in the next 5 years.

- Promoter has 25 years of experience and has gained it in the development and corporate sector.

Training, work placements, skill development, enterprise development, disability mainstreaming, and ICT innovation.

Physical assets include vehicles, laptops, furniture, office equipment, and cash in the bank.

Work from home business at present with lease rental for training rooms within the community. We pay a monthly rent of ZAR 42,000 for renting the rooms. Intend to bring everything under one roof and reduce rental costs through the investment sought.

The business is funded through the following means;

- Placements fees for candidates placed.

- Project management fees for projects undertaken.

- Skills development fees for skills development programmes.

- Training fees for diversity and disability inclusion workshops conducted.

- South African Sign Language interpreter fees.