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On Tuesday, August 13, Suriname’s Acting President Ronny Brunswijk launched three vocational training courses that will be offered by the Foundation for Workforce Mobilization and Development (SAO) for around 45 people at the Latour Neighborhood Work Foundation (Stibula) center.
This involves vocational training courses for assistant construction workers, textile work methods and GaWaSa. The project is implemented by the Office of the Vice President, specifically the Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction Policy Program. The policy program focuses on young people, especially creating various development and entrepreneurship opportunities.
Brunswijk expressed his delight at the cooperation, which provides Suriname’s disadvantaged groups, including young people, with the opportunity to develop through vocational training and thus succeed in the Surinamese labor market. He stressed that the Cabinet is doing the necessary work to provide more and more people in the country with opportunities for education, development and self-reliance.
In this case, Brunswick mentioned that disadvantaged groups should have a chance to get out of trouble. He encouraged the participants to make full use of this opportunity, encourage each other and reach the finish line smoothly.
In his speech, Steven Mac Andrew, Minister of Labour, Employment and Youth Affairs (AWJ), stressed the importance of vocational training for the participants, arguing that vocational training provides participants with golden opportunities to develop themselves by learning skills. This will enable them to work as employees or micro-entrepreneurs upon successful completion of the training.
The Minister encouraged the participants with the example of SAO students who, after comprehensive professional training, grew further and now have established their own companies, have good jobs in companies, or have found jobs abroad.
Mac Andrew spoke highly of SAO, which is regarded as the best vocational training institution in Suriname, but stressed that the successful completion of the training will depend on the commitment and motivation of the participants.
Finally, the Minister stressed that this project once again demonstrates the government’s commitment to achieving sustainable development in Suriname, leaving no one behind, which is also the motto of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Naomi Esajas-Friperson, AWJ Deputy Director of the Labour Market and Chair of the SAO Board of Directors, stressed that this event is further evidence of the government’s commitment to helping people become self-reliant in order to eradicate poverty. The President stressed that in order to achieve progress, collaboration is needed in all areas.
Esajas-Friperson is pleased to see that the participants are willing to work towards their further development, as targeted vocational education and training can lead to a better position and development in the labour market.
Mitchell Pai, Director of Policy Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation (BME) in the Office of the Vice President, and Ronald Kolf, Chairman of Stibula, are also happy about the launch of the vocational training courses, knowing that the collaboration is important to provide people, especially poor young people, with the tools for sustainable development, but can also certainly contribute to the further development of their environment, their communities and Suriname as a whole.
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