Maria David
MTC is ready to supply 40 Namibian youth a chance to take part in a two-week-long coaching program below the MTC 4Life initiative, aiming to assist them create their very own employment.
The chosen candidates will obtain coaching in numerous trades, together with barbering, brick manufacturing, animation, carpentry, hairstyling, electrical energy and photo voltaic vitality, upholstery, and welding.
MTC spokesperson Erasmus Nekundi stated the coaching can be performed by contracted, certified Namibian trainers. Upon completion, trainees will obtain a start-up toolkit and N$5,000 in capital.
According to Nekundi, this yr’s candidates are anticipated to return from 4 areas: Erongo, Hardap, Omaheke, and Zambezi.
“This program is meant to benefit all regions. Since last year, we have adopted a targeted approach, tackling a few regions at a time. This strategy ensures effective program implementation and a meaningful impact,” he stated.
He added that final yr, this system coated Omusati, Kavango East and West, Kunene, and Otjozondjupa, and now they’re specializing in areas that haven’t but been included.
Nekundi defined that the MTC 4Life program is a Corporate Social Investment initiative geared toward coaching and empowering youth with entrepreneurial and sensible enterprise abilities to start out or develop their small and medium enterprises.
He emphasised that the initiative is designed to cut back unemployment by equipping keen youth with the abilities and sources wanted to create job alternatives for themselves and others.
“We have embedded in our business practice a culture of meaningfully contributing to our country’s social and economic development. This is why we drive and uphold programs such as MTC 4Life, where the goal is to reduce youth unemployment by imparting necessary skills and providing the much-needed capital to kickstart and grow their own micro-businesses,” he added.
Interested candidates have till 27 February 2025 to submit their purposes.