By Staff Reporter
KEETMANSHOOP – The Social Security Commission Development Fund is supporting the Southern Cross Human Capital Management Centre with a grant to train 148 unemployed Namibians in food and beverages preparation.
The grant has enabled the Southern Cross Human Capital Management Centre to take youth from the street and empower them with skills in the hospitality industry.
Some of the trainees from the first group who completed their course are already successfully employed mainly at food outlets and Shoprite in the new mall in Keetmanshoop.
The current group of 20 students has a placement already at some lodges – for internship and possible full-time employment based on performance.
“We are halfway through the training and are looking forward to completing it by December 2014, as demand for training is very high but due to poverty people are unable to pay for much needed training,” said Maureen Hinda-Mbaziira of Southern Cross Human Capital Management Centre.
Rino Muranda, Head of Corporate Communications at the Social Security Commission said the Development Fund of the SSC aims at conducting training and employment schemes approved by the President of the Republic of Namibia for the benefit of socio-economically disadvantaged people who are unemployed.
“Further we grant bursaries, loans and other forms of financial aid to students enrolled at any recognised technical or academic institutions of higher education,” he said.