The garment construction programme under the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security got a boost yesterday from Silvie’s Industrial Solutions.
At a ceremony at the Ministry’s head office on Lamaha and East streets, 106 sewing machines, valued at over $4m were handed over to the Ministry.
Silvie’s Chief Executive Officer, Bramanand Persaud said that the company was proud of the initiative taken by the Ministry to empower young women in communities.
Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Dr Vindhya Persaud said, “We are setting up the top floor of the GWLI as a sewing lab, we express our thanks, this will go a long way in assisting our sewing programme, we have received positive countrywide feedback and we will be taking this to the people there in order to fulfill our promise of making them entrepreneurs.”
With nearly 300 persons, including persons living with permanent disabilities already trained in garment construction through the WIIN programme, WIIN Coordinator, Sanjay Pooran said that the programme is expected to train 500 persons in this area over the course of 2023.
“We are aiming to train about 500 persons in garment construction this year, since the programme was introduced, we have consistently had a high demand for it to be offered and with this boost in equipment, we will be better able to surpass our target,” Pooran said.
