YMG: YOUNG MANUFACTURERS GROUP - 15 TO 30 YEARS

National Hands Network YMG Programmes are designed as a stepping stone for unemployed youth 15 - 30 years. National Hands Network offers its practical learning TRADE YOURSELF Platform to the YMG; encouraging a plethora of commercial pathways for its participants to pursue. The YMG programme mandates clear business objectives, with real deliverables and deadlines to ensure YMG youth secure paid work opportunity, that youth with bright ideas are mentored to a framed entrepreneurial project worthy of nurture, incubation, launch and commercialisation.

National Hands Network said to a group of long term unemployed youth in a marginalised region in Australia...‘ If there are no jobs out there, then lets think up and create them'. 

These disengaged youth told the National Hands Network that they come from an environment of multi generation welfare reliance, substance abuse, rife risky behaviour and crime, homelessness, stunted school achievements, zero employment pathways and fear for their lives and those of their peers. Their backdrop is hopelessness: high level fear and anxiety feeding physical and mental ill health. NHN sadly spoke to group after group from what we now term Generation W....washed up human beings 15 to 30 years living in a Wasteland. 

Generation W is a global phenomenon. Generation W is unacceptable to the National Hands Network. 

In the last quarter 2014 NHN established its YMG programme specifically targeting the unemployment and underemployment of Generation W in Bendigo, Victoria. Now NHN and some of these marginalised unemployed youth are winning their first battle in the war against lack of engagement by taking part in YMG:WOODGANG; an NHN Young Manufacturers Group (YMG) initiative designed to reignite paid work opportunity, micro industry at a local level and to promote wholly Australian Made manufacturing in the category of home and lifestyle products. 

NHN enters marginalised locations looking to embrace Generation W; scouting for talent, for the commercial leaders of tomorrow and for local economic development opportunities in order for Generation W jobs creation. NHN places a high priority on its YMG programmes. This age demographic is crucial for the direction and the survival of the planet. The TRADE YOURSELF platform focuses on bringing out the best in these Generation W, and NHN acknowledge that we too, need to sow our own seeds of encouragement; we will not give up here.