Enginuity
JANUARY 2018
Practical learning experience being received by learners in Peddie,
Ngqushwa Municipality
Paving the way forward for unemployed youth
in the Eastern Cape
Bosch Ulwazi’s national skills upliftment programmes assist
youth from disadvantaged communities to further their
education and find meaningful employment close to home.
One such programme is being offered to 410 unemployed
young people in Peddie, a rural town near East London in
the Eastern Cape and in uMshwathi in KwaZulu-Natal. The
programme is a partnership between the Local Government
SETA (LGSETA) as the funder, the local municipality as the
employer and Bosch Ulwazi as the training provider.
This 12 month learnership in construction is a combination
of classroom-based training, integrated with construction
related simulations, which culminates in an NQF registered
qualification. The learnership will prepare learners for work
placements on construction sites within the local municipalities
of Ngqushwa and uMshwathi.
Our primary aim is to address the gap between the current
education and training provided, and the growing needs of the
labour market. As Bosch Ulwazi we are proud to support the
development of many deserving learners who are unable to
further their education because of financial restraints.
For ease of costs and logistics of running a training programme
in remote Peddie, facilitators and mentors from Bosch Ulwazi
have relocated to temporarily reside among the community
for the duration of the learnership programme.
Bosch Ulwazi is a proud provider of training services. Our
primary aim is to develop skills of unemployed youth on
accredited programmes, to bridge the gap between obtaining
a qualification and finding employment, and to ultimately
empower communities into small enterprise development.
Balan Govender - [email protected]