Come October 1, over 3,000 young people in hinterland communities throughout the country will begin to benefit from training in technical vocations and life skills.
According to the Government Informa-tion Agency (GINA), the youth will be exposed to one-year programmes that will be implemented in three phases and will afford them the opportunity to get qualified in areas of tourism and hospitality, cake decoration, sewing, electrical instillation, plumbing, mechanical engineering, and carpentry and joinery along with in book keeping, accounts, event planning, report writing. Once per month there will also be workshops on various issues prevalent amongst youth, including teenage pregnancy, alcohol abuse and Trafficking in Persons (TIP).
The release said Minister within the Ministry of Indigenous People’s Affairs Valarie Garrido-Lowe revealed that each trainee will receive a monthly stipend of $20,000 while another $10,000 will be saved for them, so that at the end of the year they will
