Jobless Omaruru youth empowered

ONE hundred unemployed youth at Omaruru last week received certificates for graduating in various subjects that they learned over the past couple of months through Women’s Action for Development (WAD).

The subjects included basic computer literacy, office administration and typing, project management and bookkeeping, vegetable production and tailoring. The training will help them to find jobs or to start their own income-generating projects, according to WAD Executive Director Veronica de Klerk.Those students who obtained A grades will receive further training to become WAD trainers, and will then transfer their skills to other marginalised people countrywide.”WAD’s assistance to poor communities never consists of bags of money on which people can survive for a short while,” De Klerk said.”WAD’s assistance instead comes in the form of knowledge and skills development which will enable you never to go hungry again.”With our training we hope to awaken a spirit of entrepreneurship in you to take courage and to fight off the grip of poverty.”The training programmes were sponsored to the tune of N$40 000 by the Spanish NEPAD Fund.The training will help them to find jobs or to start their own income-generating projects, according to WAD Executive Director Veronica de Klerk.Those students who obtained A grades will receive further training to become WAD trainers, and will then transfer their skills to other marginalised people countrywide.”WAD’s assistance to poor communities never consists of bags of money on which people can survive for a short while,” De Klerk said.”WAD’s assistance instead comes in the form of knowledge and skills development which will enable you never to go hungry again.”With our training we hope to awaken a spirit of entrepreneurship in you to take courage and to fight off the grip of poverty.”The training programmes were sponsored to the tune of N$40 000 by the Spanish NEPAD Fund.