TANZANIA is set to benefit from international youth exchange programme with Germany in technical education to support the industrialisation drive.
The National Economic Empowerment
Council (NEEC) Executive Secretary Ms Beng’i Issa said after opening
two-day workshop of stakeholders from Tanzania Youth Coalition (TYC)
that Tanzania will reap enormous benefits from Germany rich in terms of
knowledge and skills on technical education.
“The workshop is more focused on
improving the programme since Germany is more advanced in terms of
technical education and skills,” she said mentioning other countries
taking part in the programme apart from Tanzania as South Africa and
Benin.
Tanzanian youth will go to Germany for
one year course to learn how their peers survive and later apply the
knowledge and skills in establishing and developing processing
industries.
Representative from the Germany Embassy,
Mr Johannes Lauber said the government needs to be closer to youth
through such programme so that they could gain experience in various
fields for their development and the nation at large.
“Our government will continue to
collaborate with Tanzania and in this programme young people from both
countries will continue to have an exchange programmes with the aim to
get experience and knowledge, “he said.
He said youth exchange programmes for
African countries help young people engage in various issues and become
an integral part of the development of their nations due to their
contributions.
The former volunteer in the TYC
programme Mr Humphrey Polepole pleaded youth going for the training
course to put national interests first and become patriotic.
TYC Director, Mr Lenin Kazoba said the
workshop was highly attended by various programme stakeholders to
discuss how to improve the youth exchange programmes for sustainable
learning environment to increase skills in national development.
“The aim of this workshop is to
strengthen a strategy that will enable this programme to be more
effective for youth to share skills and knowledge acquired,” he said
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