Thabaleshoba boasts new sewing project
The Community Work Programme is a government initiative designed to provide an employment safety net to eligible participants by offering them a minimum number of regular days of work each month.
MOKOPANE – THE Community Work Program, CWP, boasts with another project last Wednesday in Thabaleshoba Village called the Thabaleshoba CWP Sewing Project.
The Community Work Programme is a government initiative designed to provide an employment safety net to eligible participants by offering them a minimum number of regular days of work each month. The programme targets the unemployed youth, women and people with disabilities.
Andries Nel, deputy minister of cooperative governance and traditional affairs, (CoGTA), visited various CWP sites last Wednesday in Thabaleshoba Village and together with Tlotlanang Mogotlane, executive mayor of Waterberg district municipality, Malesela Parks Sebatjane, mayor of Mogalakwena municipality and Patricia Mosito, mayor of Thabazimbi municipality opened the doors to the Thabaleshoba CWP Sewing Project.
The participants of the Sewing Project immediately jumped in behind their work stations and began to sew their uniforms.”We are truly grateful for this opportunity,” said one of the participants exited.”
Nel, Mogotlane, Sebatjane and Mosito visited all the projects that are implemented in the area and they planted trees at Ditlou Primary School after which they addressed a crowd of about 1500 CWP participants who are benefiting from the program as well as members of the community.
Nel said, “Through the CWP, the youth of our country are building a better future each day, not only for themselves, but also for their communities.
The CWP supplements government’s social grants program and puts R1, 4 billion into the pockets and onto the tables of more than 200 000 participants.”
“Over the five years of this administration the CWP will put R5, 6 billion into the pockets of the poorest of the poor. CWP has created 202 634 work opportunities during the 2014/15 financial year, in the entire country. We want to create a million work opportunities by 2019,” Nel concluded.
Mayor Sebatjane said, “through the CWP, the youth of our municipality are building a better future each day, not only for themselves, but also for their communities. This could be looking after orphans and vulnerable children, helping sick people, assisting teachers at schools. It could also involve working with the local police to improve safety and reduce crime.”
Currently the CWP is being implemented in ward 1 and ward 2 of the Mogalakwena municipality, which comprises of 21 villages being Khala, Matjietjieleng, Bavaria, Pollen, Khala, Setupulane, Lennes, Preezburg, Galelia, Waterval, Blinkwater, Makobe, Mattanau, Breda, Duren, Monte Christo, Thabaleshoba, Tipeng, Sodoma, Uitzight and Moeglik.
