THE Vocational Education Training Authority (VETA) in collaboration with a mobile phone company, Airtel, has trained more than 50 youth on various vocational fields through a mobile education programme dubbed VSOMO.
Speaking at the ongoing 41st Dar es
Salaam International Trade Fair (DITF) yesterday, Airtel Corporate
Social Responsibility (CSR) Manager, Ms Hawa Bayumi, said the VSOMO
project was meant to meet the increasing vocational training demand
among the youth.
She said the project had proved to be
one of the easiest and well coordinated training mechanisms in which
VETA and the mobile phone company had come up to meet the demand.
Under VSOMO, she said, the youth
download the appli cation and learn a number of issues on vocational
courses that VETA conduct. She added that so far, eleven courses were
being conducted in the field of motorcycle mechanics, electrical wiring,
welding, aluminum door and window fixing, mobile phone technicians,
bakery, computer technicians and plumbering.
Ms Bayumi said upon completion, the
youth undergo practical training at the nearest VETA centres. She urged
youngsters to join the programme, which she said had been designed to
meet the market demand and enable them to become self employed.
Ms Bayumi further explained that so far,
more than 30,000 youth had downloaded the application and 8,000 had
registered for training, amongst whom 50 had graduated through the VSOMO
project co-jointly coordinated by VETA and Airtel.
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