PAYNESVILLE- The Ministry of Youth and Sports and Ministry of Education, and its partners have began construction of a hospitality center under the Business Domestic Occupational Training Center (BDOTC). The project is believed to be valued at over six hundred and fifty thousand United States dollars (650000).
By Francis G. Boayue
The construction is being supported under the EU-funded program in collaboration with the Swedish government to strengthen reintegration through vocational education and equip teachers to ensure real-time learning.
According to the MYS, the initiative, when completed, will have a modern kitchen, conference hall, classrooms, stores, and offices, among others.
The ground-breaking ceremony was also held in partnership with the European Union, Sweden, and other partners, respectively.
Speaking at the ceremony, Assistant Minister for TVET at the MYS, Millias Z. Sheriff, disclosed that the project is being implemented by the European Institute for Cooperation and Development (IECD), working together to ensure that the TVET sector of Liberia remains second to none.
Minister Sheriff highlighted three thematic areas of intervention under the ministry, including the Tumutu Agriculture Vocational Training Institute in Bong County, whose renovation work is around 80% complete; he said, is under the youth rising project.
He disclosed that the project will last ten months from the groundbreaking ceremony.
Earlier in his remarks, UNIDO Project Manager Rogers Ndege told his counterpart that under the project they will be covering fiction technology, ICT, cosmetology, and event planning and management.
In the area of sustainability, the UNIDO project manager stressed that the center should have the capacity to generate a bit of income to keep the institution going.
“We believe that this facility, apart from being a training center, should be able to have an income generation unit, but having said that, it also means that production needs to take hold sustainably and we need financial autonomy,” Ndege declared.
For his part, Gabriel Huscult, Country Director, of the European Institute for Corporation and Development (EICD), noted that his organization’s ICT component is automatically here to assist Liberia and collaborate with ministries and agencies in implementing the TVET national strategy serving the new generation as part of its five-year program that started in 2021 and runs till 2025.
“EICD works in 60 countries around the world with hundreds of local partners and the intent of the building is to have many have access to employment through TVET and ICTs, and hospitality expertise is employed today in six countries, including Madagascar, Vienna, Thailand, Lebanon, Tunisia, and Liberia,” he added.
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