AfriSam (a provider of construction components) offered absolutely free business enterprise techniques education to 24 area business people. Their graduation ceremony was held on Friday, 28 June at the AfriSam Organization Enhancement Centre.
As part of the company’s Business Improvement Programme, the graduates properly accomplished a four-months enterprise skills programme created to guidance entrepreneur and small business homeowners near to its Roodepoort and Eikenhof operations in Gauteng.
“At AfriSam, we comprehend that escalating compact, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) is crucial for broadening economic participation and offering on our country’s economic growth objectives” claimed Jabu Motlhako, Organization and Provider Development Specialist at AfriSam
According Jabu, AfriSam’s Enterprise and Supplier Enhancement Programme identifies, empowers and improves the capacities of black-owned SMMEs that operate in shut proximity to the company’s operations. An additional key intention of the programme is to offer the entrepreneurs with the important assist and produce them to increase their corporations and eventually be included in AfriSam’s database of registered sellers.
AfriSam picked 24 black SMMEs from communities near to its Eikenhof and Roodepoort functions for the coaching programme. The business people were from distinctive industries ranging from catering, design and residence development.”The coaching was pretty beneficial to me since it included a assortment of topics these kinds of as setting up a small business and preserving it, as perfectly as managing the funds. I have also learnt how to do my enterprise profile. I will be able to go back again to my community and hire the unemployed youth,” explained Bram Fischerville entrepreneur, Peter Molete. The enterprise will also be helping five of the graduating SMMEs with business office space for amongst 12 and 36 months at its Business Progress Centre.
