The Youth Leadership Programme selects young people who are in residential childcare facilities and show exceptional leadership potential to go through our four year programme. Every two years a new group of up to 15 young people are selected. The first two years of the youth leaders partake in the Junior Leadership Programme until they graduate and become Senior Youth Leaders.

Additionally, AMANDLA strives to train up a core group of young people who have grown up within the AMANDLA programmes and naturally identify with its vision and approach, thus enabling them to be potential employees of AMANDLA itself or other organisations. The individual development of each AMANDLA Youth Leader is closely monitored and supported with the aim of them gaining all the necessary skills to gain employment.