Youth can apply for accredited training

CALL is now officially open for the youth in the South of Johannesburg who are unskilled and unemployed to apply for skills development training opportunities at Believers Care Society Youth Development Centre.

They employ integrated learning strategy that does not only address the work-skills requirement but also personal development in the process.

Their social programme includes life skills, community service, extramural activities and community outreach events. This means that every learner who is attending training also participates in social activities that ensure holistic development of a young person.

All their training courses are accredited through respective SETA’s. The regulation of the SETA ensures that their training programmes meet a quality standard and they have 21 accredited qualifications, making it possible for one to choose from diverse career options.

At the completion of learning, participants are issued accredited certificates of competence and receive job assistance through their active job centres.

Training courses currently enrolling includes interior design, mobile phone engineering, end-user computing, project management, contact centre support (call-centre course), office skills and administration, computerised book-keeping/pastel accounting and PC engineering course. Duration of the above courses is three months, six months and 12 months respectively.

Classes resume on April 23. All services take place at the Youth Development Centre in Turffontein.

Youth with a passion for above courses are encouraged to apply now. To qualify one must be between 17 and 35 years, a resident of Joburg South, matric or equivalent, Grade 10’s are taken. Must be willing to study and to complete training duration.

No fees are required, only unemployed and unskilled youth are accepted.

Requirements include a copy of ID, proof of residence, previous qualification and a short CV, all certified. Classes are from Monday to Friday and five hours per day.

For more information call 011 434 4598/1894, visit their office at 118 High Street, corner High and Ferreira streets, next to Turffontein Post Office, send WhatsApp to 081 441 7758, visit www.believerscaresociety.org alternatively like them on Facebook to get regular updates: Believers Care Society.

For free daily local news in the south, visit our sister newspapers Alberton Record, Comaro Chronicle, Southern Courier and Get it Joburg South Magazine.

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