Parents charged to equip their children with hand skills
At the function, the graduates were given sewing machines and salon machines, among others, to go and change their lives while earning money.
By Deguras Nshutaminabo
Ntungamo: Parents and guardians in Ntungamo district have been asked to equip their children with hand skills for the brightness of their future.
The call was made on Sunday during the first graduation ceremony of the Ndera Business Training Center in Rwobubare Rubaare town council in Ntungamo district.
Ms. Mercy Niwamanya, the director Ndera Business Training Center, is optimistic that when a child is raised with knowledge of skills, he or she will never fail to sustain himself or herself and the entire family in the future.
She also said that a child equipped with skills is not comparable to a child with a heap of books. She added that the one with skills will be the first to earn money, as will the one with a heap of books who can move up and down looking for an office job.
The institution is aimed at grooming young and old people with skills like basic tailoring and garment cutting, salon and hair dressing, computer training, hotel training and catering, knitting and crochet driving, and simple mechanics, among others.
At the function, the graduates were given sewing machines and salon machines, among others, to go and change their lives while earning money.
Mr. Justus Karuhanga, who was the guest of honor, in his message through Wiston Muhoozi, urged the graduates to put the machines given to them and the skills acquired to use and appealed to the beneficiaries not to sell off. He also charged the government to consider the education of a boy child, not only a girl child.
Brenda Nyangoma and Viola Musiimenta, among others who received apparatuses, promised to put them to use to earn a living.
Ms. Hope Kariyo, one of the parents of the graduates, thanked the Ndera directors for their tremendous work in grooming the young, which is of great importance.
Other speakers, Angella Tumuhaise and Friday Wilbrod, who are among the staff, said that they still have the challenge of a lack of enough apparatus to train students.
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