Craftsmanship
We are dedicated to building trust between local artisans and citizens or customers.
We do this by ensuring a precision mindset on the part of our trainee community.
Who We Are
Female Owned and Youth Led
The African Centre for Technical Training (ACTT) is a modern, accredited skills centre, envisioned in 2015 and founded in 2022 out of pure grit and passion for reimagining Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Africa for the 21st century and beyond.
Our Vision
We envision a future where technical and vocational careers are respected, well-paid, and central to Africa’s industrial and economic transformation.
Our Mission
We are on a mission to empower African youth with industry-relevant technical, entrepreneurial, and life skills that lead to decent work, sustainable incomes, and economic transformation.
Trainee Journey
Complete core multi-disciplinary foundational subjects designed to be interactive modules to prepare trainees for a precision mindset
Choose a technical specialisation designed to have a 70:30 practical-to-theory ratio.
Placement for an apprenticeship with partner institutions
Our Advantage
Entrepreneurship
Graduates from our program will be equipped to start out on their own, mentor and hire others
Employment
Placement to jobs on graduation because of solid linkage with industry
Ethics
To train people who do the right thing even when no one is watching
Africa
Pure polytechnic founded by Africans, for Africans, and entirely run by African youth
Practice
Small class sizes with 70% practice/workshop based, 30% theory/classroom based
Diversity
Championing diversity by catering to the underrepresented and marginalised in this sector (women, street children, persons with disability, rural poor, etc.)