Exile kids receiving training in Zambezi About 251 struggle kids have been enrolled at the Simon Mutumba Police Training Centre in the Zambezi Region for civic and vocational training. The Office of the Prime Minister announced in a statement at the weekend that the struggle kids left last week for Zambezi with the first training programme to concentrate on civic affairs for two months and the remainder four months on vocational training.
According to the Permanent Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister, Nangula Mbako, this group will be the second to receive training in the field of motor mechanics, plumbing, welding, building and construction, electrical installation and electronics. Mbako also said that 54 children of the liberation struggle were studying at the Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology (NIMT) in Arandis.
“The committee is still in the process of identifying more sustainable training centres for the remaining children of the liberation. Government is therefore appealing to those who have not yet accepted the Governments offer to seize the opportunity which is being implemented to solve their plight,” Mbako said.
Mbako added that there were all round efforts to employ and train youth from varying backgrounds, and that the training of the struggle kids was target intervention, adding that “the initiative to assist the children of the liberation struggle is not the only programme addressing the youth skills development in the country”.
Keith Vries