The Angolan Government defends the expansion of the Academia do Empreendedor to the remaining provinces, so that more young nationals benefit from training provided by institutions of the kind.
This thesis came from the Vice-President of the Republic, Bornito de Sousa, during his visit to the facilities of the Academia do Empreendedor, located in the Urban District of Benfica, municipality of Talatona, last month, where he found out about the degree of functioning, as well as the results achieved so far by the Academy, since its inauguration in April last year.
Bornito de Sousa also informed that the national Executive has been defending and promoting entrepreneurship and training of young people, so that, from each level they finish, they can already carry out some useful activity.
"Training in the areas of Technology, Exact Sciences, on the one hand, training in the areas of entrepreneurship and, in a broader sense, professional training and empowering young people to be able to do something, is exactly what we are seeing here in this venture”, said Bornito de Sousa.
According to the Vice-President, it is already clear to all young people today that no State, regardless of the country, is capable of absorbing all young people and adolescents.
"We were also pleased to see that there is a significant participation of women, who, in fact, make up the majority of trainees at this centre.”, he stressed, where he congratulated the women on the occasion of the 2nd of March.
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On that same visit, the Vice-President of the Republic witnessed the signing of the partnership protocol between the Academia do Empreendedor de Luanda and the Association for the Promotion, Development, Prosperity and Technology, whose objective is to identify mechanisms that can contribute to the training and enhancement of academic career of children and young people with high learning and entrepreneurial skills.
He also welcomed the volunteering focused on this type of training and social responsibility actions, noting that initiatives of the kind developed, above all, by companies, can play a significant role in the training and qualification of young people and adolescents.
It should be noted that the Academia do Empreendedor de Luanda is a center dedicated to the professional training of adolescents and young people in the field of business creation and development skills, as well as technical and deontological training, in order to encourage employment and self-esteem. job.
Since it started operating in April last year, the Academy has held various training courses in Pastry and Cooking, Decoration, table and bar, hairdressing, cutting and sewing, software development and assembly of satellite dishes, planning and management of micro and small businesses, having trained 219 entrepreneurs, of which 60 percent are young women and 89 percent aged up to 30 years.
The Academy is open to the public and membership requirements are essentially 8th grade completed and be between 14 and 15 years old minimum. Exceptionally, the institution receives some trainees outside this scope, provided they have the conditions and ability to form ideas into business.
