NPO empowers through entrepreneurship training
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After years in the construction industry former CEO of Izwe Training and Development Centre, Bernadette Oliphant, recently retired, leaving the NPO in the hands of the new CEO, Poobie Pillay, who introduced new strategies for the centre at a recent breakfast in Norton Estates.
The Izwe Training and Development Centre has chosen the strategy to assist those with limited or no skills through job creation and poverty alleviation.
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A declining construction market revealed that delegates were in need of entrepreneurship training.
The Benoni-based training centre focuses on construction-specific training.
About 45 delegates were recently trained at the centre at 67 Doreen Road, by Pillay.
During the free five-weekend entrepreneurship boot camp for emerging entrepreneurs at their Benoni campus, Pillay highlighted the need to focus on self-employment. He also introduced the centre’s various development programmes aimed at training unemployed people, and creating informal businesses by coupling technical skills, such as bricklaying, plastering, paving, welding and tiling, with basic business skills to empower people to earn a living.
The response from attending delegates was phenomenal, with delegates praising both the quality of the training as well as the manner in which their business skills were improved.
Speaking at the relaunch, a boot camp attendee, Patricia Zwane of Rise Above Life Coaching Enterprises, shared an emotional account of how her business was positively impacted by Pillay and his team. By focusing on her core competencies and improving her marketing skills, she had already secured new clients.
In his address, Pillay emphasised that Izwe Training and Development is an NPO and will continue to drive local empowerment, community upliftment and skills development in partnership with its corporate clients.
