AfriSam empowers local entrepreneurs | Roodepoort Record

 

AfriSam (a provider of construction products) supplied totally free company techniques schooling to 24 nearby business people. Their graduation ceremony was held on Friday, 28 June at the AfriSam Enterprise Improvement Centre.

As component of the company’s Enterprise Improvement Programme, the graduates successfully accomplished a 4-months organization skills programme made to guidance entrepreneur and organization house owners near to its Roodepoort and Eikenhof functions in Gauteng.

“At AfriSam, we realize that growing little, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) is essential for broadening economic participation and offering on our country’s economic progress objectives” stated Jabu Motlhako, Organization and Provider Development Expert at AfriSam

According Jabu, AfriSam’s Organization and Supplier Development Programme identifies, empowers and improves the capacities of black-owned SMMEs that work in close proximity to the company’s operations. A different critical goal of the programme is to give the business people with the required help and produce them to expand their firms and ultimately be involved in AfriSam’s databases of registered sellers.

AfriSam selected 24 black SMMEs from communities close to its Eikenhof and Roodepoort functions for the coaching programme. The business people had been from unique industries ranging from catering, construction and home advancement.”The instruction was extremely advantageous to me simply because it included a range of subjects this sort of as starting off a enterprise and sustaining it, as well as managing the funds. I have also learnt how to do my business profile. I will be ready to go back again to my community and utilize the unemployed youth,” mentioned Bram Fischerville entrepreneur, Peter Molete. The corporation will also be assisting 5 of the graduating SMMEs with place of work place for concerning 12 and 36 months at its Business enterprise Growth Centre.