The National Training Project for Youth Empowerment and the Single Parents Board of Industrial Training awarded diplomas to a large group of graduates from Regions Three and Four, yesterday at the National Culture Centre.The event highlighted the initiative taken by single parents to improve their lives by undergoing training in various fields of work such as catering, cosmetology and sewing. The training they received increases their chances of being qualified for a job.The graduates of a younger age represented youths that achieved less than five subjects in school,China Jerseys Cheap, but were determined enough to continue their education to enhance their marketability.Chairman of the Board of Industrial Training, Dr. Dale Bisnauth, who was the host of the graduation ceremony stated that “some people need a second or third opportunity to be trained for employment”.The completion of courses that the single parents have accomplished will be motivation to their children to work hard to achieve a fruitful life, he added.Graduates of the Training Project for Youth Empowerment and the Single Parents Board of Industrial TrainingHe added that last year’s graduation in Linden the graduates had the opportunity to receive training in 93 skill areas offered under the programme.Region Four Chairman, Clement Corlette, encouraged the graduates that their training “has set them on the road to another level of development that they did not have previously making them more available to businesses looking for their learnt skills.”Project Coordinator for National Training Project for Youth Empowerment, Coreen Connely, said that for Region Four, 614 trainees graduated yesterday along with 221 trainees from Region Three.She stated that “single parents that graduated included 49 persons—20 of them from Region Three and the remainder from Georgetown.”Region Three Chairman, Julius Faerber, explained to the graduates that “you have now acquired skills which I would not expect you to keep to yourselves. You will go into your communities and train the young people (and so) pass on the knowledge you have garnered.”Minister of Labour Manzoor Nadir joked that he was happy to hear that more than 300 of the trainees are working because they will now be paying taxes to give him the comfort of his rocking chair he might receive on November 29, 2011.He continued that Ms. Blackman has spent at the Board of Industrial training $145 million to provide adequate facilities for the trainees to train in. He continued that it is good to see young people fixed and focused on their futures to contribute to the growth of Guyana.
