Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. Guma Valley Water Company in partnership with the National Youth Commission (NAYCOM) and the Freetown Polytechnic has in a ceremony held at the Polytechnic’s complex at Kissy Dock Yard certified 60 Artisan Plumbers and Entrepreneurs.
The refresher training of the Artisan Plumbers and Entrepreneurs is one of the activities under the Freetown WASH and Aquatic Environment Revamping Project (WASHAERP) being funded by the African Development Bank and implemented by Guma Valley Water Company.
This activity is aimed at empowering the youths of Sierra Leone which constitute over 62% of the country’s population with vocational and managerial skills.
According to Mohamed A.R. Kamara, Project Coordinator at the Freetown Polytechnic, the objective of the training was to properly prepare 20 groups of Plumbers and Entrepreneurs (2 plumbers and a manager per group) who will not only be involved in the installation of water meters at Guma Customers’ premises in Freetown, but to also constitute them to serve this purpose beyond the life of this project.
“Today is a remarkable day for our youths in Sierra Leone, it has been a long process entailing training of 60 youths in entrepreneurship and Plumbing. They had a few weeks training at NAYCOM in entrepreneurship and then came over to us for refresher course in plumbing and installation of meters”, he added.
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