Greater than 50 younger residents of Gregory Park in St. Catherine will acquire hands-on entrepreneurial abilities when the Social Growth Fee (SDC) hosts its second Youth Entrepreneurship Abilities Symposium (YESS) on Friday (August 29), on the Worldwide Church of God.
The symposium, designed for youth aged 15 to 24, will present sensible coaching in each inventive ventures, resembling bouquet arranging, candle making, and lip gloss manufacturing, in addition to technical trades, together with welding and plumbing.
By equipping members with marketable abilities, the initiative goals to scale back unemployment and encourage the subsequent technology of enterprise leaders and neighborhood innovators.
“Our aim with YESS is to shift the narrative in communities like Gregory Park from one among problem to one among immense alternative,” mentioned SDC Govt Director, Omar Frith.
“We aren’t simply instructing abilities; we’re planting seeds of financial self-sufficiency. After we empower an adolescent to create their very own job, they typically go on to create jobs for others. That is how we construct resilient communities from the bottom up,” he added.
The SDC will measure the long-term affect of the initiative by way of Key Efficiency Indicators (KPIs), together with the variety of new companies formally registered by members and jobs created as a direct results of the coaching.
In keeping with Portmore Parish Supervisor for the SDC, Ishiwawa Hope, the symposium is simply step one in a broader journey of assist.
The true success of YESS, she mentioned, “lies in our sustained collaboration”.
The symposium will see key companions such because the HEART/NSTA Belief, which may have on-site representatives to conduct assessments and enrol members into their programmes, making certain these new abilities are licensed and enhanced.
Via initiatives resembling this, the SDC will proceed monitoring the progress of budding entrepreneurs, linking them to its Native Financial Growth Help Programme and broader neighborhood improvement initiatives.
This 12 months’s occasion additionally represents the growth of the profitable ‘Portmore Say YES I’ mission, underlining the SDC’s long-term dedication to youth empowerment.
By combining coaching, mentorship, and ongoing assist, the SDC and its companions goal to stimulate wealth creation, foster innovation, and supply optimistic pathways for youth in Gregory Park and past.
