The U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth (USAID) Youth Resilience, Inclusion and Empowerment (Y-RIE) Program and the Ministry of Training, hosted a ceremony on Thursday on the Orchid Centre, Union, Castries, to have a good time the achievements of 45 youth individuals who accomplished the “Getting Prepared” part of the Ignite Challenge.
The Ignite Challenge, initiated in March, works to equip program individuals aged 16-25 from Anse la Raye and Gros Islet with very important entrepreneurial competencies and office readiness expertise to reshape their futures.
The challenge addresses the instant want for workforce growth amongst younger folks and lays the groundwork for a extra equitable and inclusive training system and enhanced financial pathways for younger Saint Lucians, which aligns with the Ministry’s Training Sector Growth Plan targets and the nationwide imaginative and prescient for elevated youth contributions to the economic system for inclusive and sustainable financial development.
The partnership between USAID Y-RIE and the Ministry demonstrates USAID’s unwavering dedication to fostering alternatives for development, growth, and optimistic financial participation. The challenge’s first part, Getting Prepared, supplied foundational life and employability expertise, enterprise publicity, teaching, and psychosocial assist. This part ready youth individuals for the realities of entrepreneurship and employment alternatives. The psychosocial assist element was supplied in partnership with the St. Lucia Disaster Centre.
The Recognition Ceremony featured remarks from the Parliamentary Secretary within the Ministry of Training, Senator Dr. Pauline Antoine-Prospere, on behalf of the Minister, Mercreanne Charles-Modeste, Head of NELU, and Phelps Feeley, Chief of Celebration (COP), Y-RIE.
Along with the Ministry, NELU, and Ignite group, the Y-RIE COP thanked the private and non-private sector, notably LUCELEC, B&B Cash Savers, Johnsons {Hardware}, the Nationwide Printing Company, the Royal Saint Lucia Police Pressure Group Relations department, and Automotive Artwork for his or her immense assist which included instruments and tools for graduates.
“Most significantly, nevertheless, I need to acknowledge and have a good time the Ignite individuals for making a dedication to their futures, their potential, their households and communities by dedicating themselves to this program. That is your alternative and also you’ve taken it,” Antoine-Prospere stated
