10,000 youth for entrepreneurship training

Aug 17, 2011

Over 10,000 youth will be trained in free skills and employment in the housing and construction industry by the end of next year.<br>

BY DAVID SSEMPIJJA

Over 10,000 youth will be trained in free skills and employment in the housing and construction industry by the end of next year.

The job-creation training will be conducted by Hydraform Technologies International and the Rural-Urban Mutual Investments (RUMI), a local body involved in building entrepreneurship mindset among the young population.

Harrison Busingye, the RUMI director, explained that the youth will learn how to apply Hydraform low cost housing technology.

“After getting the skills, Hydraform sources for them jobs in different housing projects across the country,” Busingye said.

“When it comes to training in Hydraform technologies, we impart knowledge right from how to test and select the soil good for block making, operate and maintain machines, up to the building technologies,” he told reporters in Kampala last week.

Busingye noted that even with the construction boom, the manpower was not increasing in tandem with the real estate growth rate.

He pointed out that for the last one year, over 500 youth from different districts had been trained and connected to different housing projects for employment.

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