IkamvaYouth is a by-youth, for-youth community-based, non-profit organization that drives social change in South Africa by enabling disadvantaged youth to access post-school opportunities in tertiary education and job-based training.

Based at the Nazeema Isaacs library in Makhaza, Khayelitsha, and the Nyanga library, Ikamva Youth works with learners in grades 10 to 12. The project is driven completely by the commitment, enthusiasm and creativity of "Ikamvanites" (volunteers and learners). The volunteers have diverse backgrounds: students from UCT, CPUT, UWC and Rosebank college, unemployed graduates, and young professionals working in NGOs, government and the private sector. Forty to fifty percent of the current volunteer base comprises ex-learners. Ikamva Youth has been in existence since 2003 without funding, but its vision keeps it going: it shows that positive change is possible with very little resources and a lot of passion, and believes that such a model is replicable across South Africa. It also provides a cost-effective solution to some of South Africa’s biggest problems: the low skills base, unemployment, lack of black professionals, brain drain, poverty and youth turning to crime.