Dubbed “Employment Attack 102,” Specialists in Sustained Youth Development and Research (SSYDR) Inc have once again partnered with ExxonMobil Guyana to host a job readiness camp for young people aimed at targeting 150 participants from secondary schools within Regions 2, 3, 4, 6, and 10.
This is according to a press release yesterday from SSYDR which its Founder and Executive Director Magda Fiona Wills said is an initiative aimed at reducing poverty and its negative impacts among young people.
“Helping one child can change the fate of a family, a community and a nation,” Willis was quoted as saying adding that the potential transformation from engaging 450 youth is “unimaginable.”
According to the release some 300 youths have benefitted from the camp to date.
Wills explained that the programme was prompted by the fact that youth represent the largest majority of the unemployed in Guyana.
She said that `Employment Attack 102’ has two components—coaching towards livelihood opportunities and work-ready training.
To this end, the release said that participants are assigned coaches and together they develop an “individual livelihood plan which allows them to identify short and long-term goals and to map out the process of achieving these goals.
At the same time, over a one-month period, participants will also be exposed to seven modules for work readiness—personal development, interpersonal communication, work habits and conduct, leadership and teamwork, safety and health at work, rights and responsibilities of workers and employers and financial fitness.
“`Employment Attack 102’ is exactly the type of transformative program that ExxonMobil Guyana seeks to support,” the release quoted Community Relations Manager, Suzanne De Abreu as saying; adding that “the future of Guyana’s development is heavily dependent on the ability of our young people to become job ready and position themselves well in the job market place.”
In a bid to facilitate the training virtually, SSYDR said it has partnered with GTT for subsidized data plans that will allow participants to have uninterrupted online learning since they have to use their smart phones and data-plans.
