Apex Adelchi Footwear to provide jobs for 800 youth

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Saturday, 16 July 2011

Author / Source : BSS

GAIBANDHA, July 15: Apex Adelchi Footwear Limited (AAFL) has taken up a plan to provide jobs for 800 trained youth of Sadar Upazila in the district in their factories to solve their unemployment problems and help them make self reliant. Gana Unnayan Kendra, a local organisation, is providing the need base training to the youth of disaster prone areas of the upazila under its Reducing Extreme Poor by Skills Development on Garments project funded by Shiree/eep: a GOB and DFID partnership.
Under this project, a total of 1100 youths including women would be provided with training in phases so that they could work well in their respective working places properly and change their socio-economic condition gradually.
Of the total, as many as 42 youth of first batch have already been engaged in garments industries in Dhaka after receiving training on Garments and 40 youths
who received training on footwear in second batch is going to join at the factories of AAFL on Sunday, said an official of GUK.
On Thursday, a MoU was signed between AAFL and GUK at its training center at Nashratpur area under Sadar Upazila in the district.
Mominul Ahsan, head of human resources of AAFL and chief executive of GUK signed the documents on behalf of their respective organizations.
Under this agreement, jobs of a total of 800 trained
youths including women would be provided at the factories of AAFL .
After signing MoU, head of human resources of Apex Mominul Ahsan said the footwear industry in Bangladesh is growing fast but our biggest constraint is to find skilled and semi-skilled labors. NGOs and other development agencies can support the growth by developing new manpower for the sector, he also said.
GUK Chief Abdus Salam expressed his thankfulness to AAFL and said Apex
would set an example in eradicating poverty and hunger of the disaster affected youths through providing jobs to them.
The function was also addressed, among others, by deputy director of Social Service Department M. Shahidur Rahman, progrmme manager of shire Masud Rana, adviser of GUK Sarwar Hossain Sharif and UP chairmen Nazmul Huda Badal and Aminuzzaman Rinku.
A large number of people including the officials of the organizations, public representatives and the journalists were also present on the occasion.     BSS