SKILLS CENTER
Practical training
The "Skills Center" project consists of 11 buildings with workshops, classrooms, accommodation for apprentices and teachers as well as a kitchen with a dining room.
Background
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Even more than 22 years after the end of apartheid, the living conditions for the predominantly black population (88%, 88%, around 47,466,000) extremely difficult.
Young people in the province of KwaZulu-Natal in particular suffer from unemployment and lack of prospects in their region.
Why a Skills Center?
High-quality vocational training, which is also tailored to the needs of employers, is still rare in South Africa. The number of applications for each training course is far higher than the number of available training positions. This response shows how great the need for training opportunities is in structurally shaken South Africa.
The target group of the training courses at the Sweetdale Skills Center should primarily be disadvantaged young adults, including many full and half orphans and young people from needy families in the regions.
What Skills are learned?
After completing high school in 2017, 60 young people are to receive one-year, qualified, practical vocational training in the following professions:
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Bricklayer / all-rounder (plastering,
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Slab laying, plastering, painting
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Plumber
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Electrician
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Metal construction
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Carpenter (making simple furniture, inserting door and window frames)
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Farmer (chicken breeding and aquaponic vegetable cultivation)
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Gastronomy (cook and service)