Fresh graduates from Torit Vocational training Centre have received start-up kits from United Nations Development Program after a three months training.
The training was on computer applications, solar repair, auto-mechanic, plumbing, hair dressing, and bakery among others, Radio Emmanuel reports.
The students say the technical skills acquired from the training centre will enable them to create their own jobs.
Robert George Odia who was trained on solar installation encourages his fellow colleagues to be job creators to develop the state and the country at large.
“This is now the right time to create our own job so that we act as the agent of development in the Republic of South Sudan, these tools that are given to us, we should implement and do the work it should help us and we also make the youths that are in the community, they should be conscious about the important of education in this community, and they should also come and get the training here in this vocational school”.
Joice Faida graduated from the course of plumbing; she says she has been equipped with skills to offer good services to the community.
“Today we have received a lot from UNDP, which they have given us tools that we are to start with, so my advice for you is that, don’t go and misuse the tools and sell it out. That is my kind advice for you. I have chosen to be as a plumber because I have seen it is even good for a lady to be in that department, I have been benefiting in that there are some others works that you do in the village, there are other people who need piping and fitting in their home, there new houses which are self-contained, so they call me for that I go and work for them, so I get something out of that”.
Mawa Lucky from Auto-mechanic skills encourages other youths to register for the vocational training to stop idleness in the area.
“So it is my happiness we are getting the start-up kits today. We are going to start our various field of work, as me I did the department of Auto-mechanic, with the knowledge, the skills we have got from the tutors here, we are very happy and grateful for it, because it one of the thing that is going to keep us also busy because if we are to just stay idol, it isn’t good. The message that I have to the youths outside there also is that, when there is a chance that comes like this, they should also apply and come for the course because it is the course that will help them, they should not like being outside there, because an idol is a devil workshop, they should come and join the technical and have that skills to do some other creative work”.
On Monday, Torit Vocational training centre graduated two hundred sixty three students in fifteen different courses out of which 60 girls attended the training.