PAPU enabling job seekers with better employment options
The organisation would like to build a database so that they can have training for job seekers and then have a list for their next group of trainees.
People Against Poverty and Unemployment (PAPU), a registered non-profit organisation that has been in existence since 2016 focuses on poverty alleviation, employment opportunities, growth, development and social justice.
PAPU recently held a graduation for their students who completed the computer, life skills, workplace readiness training, entrepreneurship training.
Although this was a moment to celebrate, Dawn Joseph the centre manager of PAPU said: “I’m very concerned because very few students came to collect their certificates which make me think that after we’ve trained them they got employment and they do not let us know.
“We cover Region B but we go further. There was supposed to be 80 students’ graduations but only half came to receive their certificates.”
Joseph appeals to all those students to collect their certificates and for them to indicate that they found employment after the training. Currently, PAPU is working on launching a job centre as they partnered with Lulaway who according to Joseph are the jobcentre specialists in the country.
“Lulaway will advertise the available jobs and we will print them, put up notice boards and it will be accessible to everyone here at our centre but what the job seekers need to do is, they need to come to us and register as a job seeker, we will then book an assessment for them and then we will run the jobcentre every Friday.
“The job seeker needs to bring a certified copy of their ID, a certified copy of their matric certificate or highest qualifications, their CV and if they have a driver’s licence then a certified copy of that and if they have any other certificates they also need to bring that with.
“When the job seeker comes to book the assessment, we will issue them with a form,” explained the administrator, Gaynor Ayob.
According to Ayob, the organisation will take in twenty people every Friday from 8.30am to 3 pm but job seekers can go register at any time during the week. Jermaine Nicholls will be the facilitator of the job centre.
At this present moment, PAPU is still offering call centre training, computer, life skills, workplace readiness training, entrepreneurship training, they have social programmes as well as an information and referrals centre.
The organisation would like to build a database so that they can have training for job seekers and then have a list for their next group of trainees.
If you are interested in any of these courses or sponsoring the organisation you can contact PAPU on 011 477 0706 or you can visit them at the Masters Field Hall in Dowling Avenue in Westbury.
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