MEDIA ADVISORY
\nTO ALL MEDIA
\nFOR IMMEDIATE USE
\n29 JUNE 2023<\/p>\n
50 GREAT KEI YOUTH EMPOWERED WITH SKILLS THROUGH YOUTH BRIGADE PROGRAM
\nEAST LONDON —–Closing off Youth Month, The Eastern Cape Department of Human Settlements MEC, Honourable Siphokazi Lusithi alongside Great Kei Executive Mayor, Cllr Ngenisile Tekile will award 50 youth brigade skilled workers with certificates of participation in Great Kei Local Municipality on Friday, 30 June 2023.
\nIn efforts to curb the challenge of youth unemployment in the province, the department has devised a youth brigade program that provides unemployed youth with job training and skills development in the construction industry. Youth is recruited to participate in the delivery of the Human Settlements through service within their communities wherein they take part in building houses under supervision of experienced contractors as well as any other Human Settlements related activities. Other running projects with current benefitting youth include Katberg and Orange Groove.
\nThe Department facilitates the youth development programme within the sector through Municipalities, National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC) and the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA).
\nMembers of the media are invited to the handover to be held as follows:
\nDATE: FRIDAY, 30 JUNE 2023
\nVENUE: ZONE 10, KOMGA, GREAT KEI LM
\nTIME: 09H00
\nPlease confirm attendance to Ms P. Soga at 076 804 4292 or PhiwokuhleS@ecdhs.gov.za <\/p>\n
Issued by the Eastern Cape Department of Human Settlements. <\/p>\n
Inquiries:
\nMr Siyabonga Mdodi: Media Liaison Officer
\nMobile: 072 345 8457 | Email: SiyabongaMd@ecdhs.gov.za <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102124,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102123\/revisions\/102124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}