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GoTeach: Improving employability worldwide

As part of DHL Group’s Corporate Citizenship (CoCi) portfolio, GoTeach is the flagship program dedicated to youth employability, operating in more than 60 countries.  

The program empowers young people—especially those from vulnerable  backgrounds—by helping them build confidence and develop the skills they need on their journey towards independence.

Why GoTeach

Youth unemployment remains a critical global challenge: more than one in five youth aged 15–24 are not in education, employment, or training (NEET). Many face barriers to entering the labor market. Addressing this issue is essential to fostering inclusive economic growth, stronger communities, and long-term resilience.

For over 15 years, GoTeach has helped address this challenge by creating meaningful opportunities for young people to access workplace experiences and mentorship from DHL employees.

How GoTeach works

GoTeach delivers structured, high-quality career readiness experiences that equip young people with essential employability and future skills. Through tailored activities, participants:

  • Identify their strengths, interests, and career aspirations
  • Explore diverse career pathways
  • Develop key employability and future skills
  • Gain first-hand insights into real working environments
  • Build confidence and professional networks

Volunteer led

With approximately 584,000 colleagues worldwide, DHL provides a global network of employee volunteers who act as role models for future generations. They share personal career journeys, practical skills, and professional insights—helping young people navigate their transition from school to work.

Strategic partnerships & collaborations

GoTeach is built on long-standing partnerships with global organizations that share a commitment to strengthen youth employability and support SDG 4 (Quality Education) and SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth).

Our partnership with SOS Children's Villages focuses on young people as they transition from school to the workforce.

Global partnerships

SOS Children’s Villages is the world's largest organization focused on ensuring that children and young people without parental care or at risk of losing it grow up with the support they need to become their strongest selves. Our collaboration focuses primarily  on helping young people between the ages of 15 and 25 as they transition from school to working life.

Teach For All is a network of over 60 partner organizations working to expand educational opportunities globally. DHL supports the global network and more than 20 national partners. Throughout collaboration, we support students to thrive in and lead the future of work.

In Germany, GoTeach collaborates with Joblinge to enhance the employability of young people and with Stiftung Lesen to promote youth language and reading skills. These partnerships help create equal opportunities and inclusive access to the labor market.

Impact of GoTeach

Evidence-Based Global GoTeach Framework

GoTeach’s impact is grounded in an evidence-based approach, informed by OECD research on career readiness and over 15 years of implementation experience. This ensures that our activities are designed to meet the real needs of young people preparing to enter the workforce. Anchored in the Global GoTeach Framework—the foundation for all engagement—our program delivers targeted workshops on practical, job-ready skills such as CV writing, interview preparation, and digital literacy, directly strengthening employability.

The framework ensures:

  • Consistent global foundation
  • Local customization based on cultural, social, and economic contexts
  • A minimum of three meaningful engagements per young person
  • Alignment to proven employability competencies

Infographic GoTeach Framework

Together with our partners SOS Children’s Villages and Teach for All, GoTeach delivers measurable impact at scale, ensuring all activities directly address the needs of youth.

2025 highlights across the global network

>7,400

young people participated in GoTeach

>4,300

volunteers invested over 20,000 hours

5,205

young people impacted with 3+ GoTeach activities

376

internships enabled through GoTeach

>580

Delivered across activities in 70 countries

125

secured permanent jobs within or beyond DHL

Global framework, local impact

GoTeach operates in 63 countries through 77 partnerships:

SOS Children's Villages

55 national SOS CV organizations:

  • Latin America: Argentina – Bolivia – Brazil – Chile – Colombia – Costa Rica – Dominican Republic – Ecuador – El Salvador – Guatemala – Haiti – Honduras – Jamaica – Mexico – Nicaragua – Paraguay – Peru – Uruguay – Venezuela
  • Africa: Angola – Benin – Burkina Faso – Burundi – Cote d’Ivoire – Eswatini – Ethiopia  – Gambia – Ghana – Kenya – Lesotho – Madagascar – Mali – Mauritius – Morocco – Mozambique – Namibia – Niger – Nigeria – Rwanda – Senegal – Sierra Leone – Tanzania – Togo – Uganda
  • Asia Pacific: Indonesia – Philippines – Sri Lanka – Thailand​
  • Europe: Bulgaria – North Macedonia – Romania – Serbia – Sweden – Ukraine
  • MENA: Lebanon

Teach For All

22 national TFA partners:

  • Latin America: Argentina – Bolivia – Chile – Colombia – Ecuador – Mexico – Panama – Paraguay – Peru – Uruguay
  • Africa: Uganda – Zimbabwe
  • Asia Pacific: Bangladesh – Cambodia – India – Malaysia – Philippines​
  • Europe: Armenia – Spain – Sweden – Ukraine
  • MENA: Lebanon

Future of GoTeach

GoTeach continues to strengthen its core by expanding high-quality career readiness experiences, grounded in proven methodologies and global partnerships, to reach more young people effectively.

Scaling employability impact

GoTeach continues to strengthen its core by expanding high-quality career readiness experiences, grounded in proven methodologies and global partnerships, to reach more young people effectively.

Multi-stakeholder collaboration

The program contributes to larger ecosystems for youth employability, collaborating with additional national and regional organizations to amplify impact.

Our approach enables:

  • Cross-sector partnerships
  • Shared learnings and open-source methodologies
  • Scalable youth employability platforms like YouthCan! and Future of Work
  • Broad replication across countries and contexts .

Enabling job opportunities

While GoTeach continues to prioritize building employability skills, we are deepening our impact by also supporting young people in accessing networks and job opportunities that facilitate their entry into the workforce.

This includes:

  • Providing access to internships, apprenticeships, and job pathways
  • Creating employment opportunities within DHL Group and its network
  • Strengthening connections and real labor market access

Scaling employability impact

GoTeach continues to strengthen its core by expanding high-quality career readiness experiences, grounded in proven methodologies and global partnerships, to reach more young people effectively.

Multi-stakeholder collaboration

The program contributes to larger ecosystems for youth employability, collaborating with additional national and regional organizations to amplify impact.

Our approach enables:

  • Cross-sector partnerships
  • Shared learnings and open-source methodologies
  • Scalable youth employability platforms like YouthCan! and Future of Work
  • Broad replication across countries and contexts .

Enabling job opportunities

While GoTeach continues to prioritize building employability skills, we are deepening our impact by also supporting young people in accessing networks and job opportunities that facilitate their entry into the workforce.

This includes:

  • Providing access to internships, apprenticeships, and job pathways
  • Creating employment opportunities within DHL Group and its network
  • Strengthening connections and real labor market access

Together, these pillars reflect GoTeach’s ambition to support young people from employability to employment. By combining corporate volunteering, global partnerships, and evidence-based design, GoTeach offers a scalable model that enables young people to transition into the world of work.

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