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Vocational training for estate youth

from P. Rajaratnam in Nuwara Eliya

The Nuwara Eliya Plantation Housing and Social Welfare Trust conducted a Vocational Training Program for 20 estates youth for ten days at the Thondaman Vocational Training Centre, Hatton.

The youth as well as the estate community will be greatly benefitted by this residential training on masonry, since the trust has launched self-help housing programs on a number of estates in the Nuwara Eliya region. These trainees could be an asset to the beneficiary families.

According to the Regional Director of the Trust S. Kamalanathan the aim of the training program was to enhance the capacity of skilled workers (masons) on estates, which ultimately would expedite the ongoing projects and to provide skills for estate youth so as to enable them to engage in some form of self-employment ventures.

Lectures were delivered on matters such as measurements, quantities and layouts, rubble masonry work in foundation and walls, types of brick and concrete bonding, brick-pillars and columns, re-inforcements in concrete, floor paving and cement rendering, fixing of doors and window frames, construction of latrine cabin and pits, Maths and English.

Deputy Minister of Plantation Industries, Navin Dissanayake, who was the Chief Guest at the closing ceremony, paid glowing tributes to the Trust and the work carried out by it.

He said that skills development training for estate youth was very essential. He appealed to the youth to make the optimum use of the opportunity offered.

Deputy Minister Dissanayake requested the Trust to continue such training programs in the future as well.

The Director, Program Management and Implementation of the Trust Alex Gunawardene, the Principal of the Training Centre K. Meiyananthan and the Estate Managers of the participating estates were present.

The Nuwara Eliya Trust has already made plans to conduct similar training programs in the future as well and also to include carpentry and plumbing training as well, during the course of the year. The Trust anticipates more support from estates in the region.

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