Ndola to have two more skills straining centres

THE Ndola City Council will open two more skills training centres to serve the underprivileged in the city.

In the same vein, the council has submitted application to the Technical Education Vocation, Entrepreneurship Training Authority (TEVETA) for registration and inspection is underway.

At the moment, the local authority which has 13 teachers, is operating the Mushili Training Institute as an accredited centre with TEVETA.

Council Director Housing and Social Services, Jonathan

Simbeye, said the council would soon open Chifubu Training Centre which was offering training in food production but was not accredited with TEVETA.

According to Mr Simbeye, another centre would be opened at Mine Masala.

He said Mushili Training Institute offers courses in hospitality, design, cutting and tailoring, plumbing and sheet metal, metal fabrication, bricklaying and plastering, carpentry and joinery and Information Communication

Technology.

"Once accredited, the Ndola City Council will have three TEVETA accredited training centres.

The skills training centres target the less privileged as well as people that have skills but do not have secondary school qualifications," he said.

Mr Simbeye said that this was done in order to address unemployment among the youth.

He said that opening up of centres was done in order to ensure that everyone was empowered regardless of their financial capacity and secondary school qualifications.

Mr Simbeye said the success of the exercise was as a result of the dedication shown by the teachers.

The teachers, he said, had shown dedication even during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic and other tough situations.

“Therefore without a teacher, this world can be completely nothing as they are the most important in our society,” Mr Simbeye said.