Cazenga – The minister of Public Administration, Labour and Social Security (MAPTSS), Teresa Rodrigues Dias, on Monday in Luanda announced the award of 300 Vocational Training Scholarships to the Government of Luanda Provincem, for its municipalities.
The scholarships will be awarded to young people in vulnerable situations, within the scope of Youth and Good Employment Opportunities project (JOBE Angola), in the areas of Industrial and Automotive Production Mechanics, Transport, Logistics, Development, Information Technologies, Communication and Metrology, as well as the areas of Electricity, Renewable Energy and Mechatronic Energy at the Rangel Integrated Technological Training Center (CINFOTEC).
The information was provided in the municipality of Cazenga, during the symbolic delivery of 86 professional kits (work tools), micro credit and professional developments, within the scope of the JOBE Angola Program.
According to the official, this measure comes from the positive experiences that have been witnessed, with the implementation of training scholarships, benefiting the central south region of the country, which has allowed young people from the provinces of Huambo, Bié, Benguela, Huíla and Cubango to benefit from professional training scholarships at CINFOTEC in the province of Huambo.
For him, strengthening the Lobito Corridor is a major commitment by the Angolan government for the country's development.
In turn, vice-governor of Luanda for the Economic sector, Jorge Miguêns Augusto, said that these are kits that respond to the program financed by National Employment Fund (FUNEA), where municipalities had an active participation at the level of the province of Luanda in the design of this project.
He highlighted that the municipalities already have areas created to place this group of young people organized into cooperatives to begin carrying out the activity locally.
“Everyone was selected carefully and went through a training process that ended with a more economic perspective”, he emphasized.
Contracts were delivered and signed with the cooperatives, such as gardening kits, a two-wheeled motorcycle for delivering products and holding taxi activities, road maintenance, gutter cleaning, curb painting and the social insertion project for solid waste collectors (PICAR).
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