Apex Adelchi Footwear Limited to provide jobs for 800 youth

Apex Adelchi Footwear Limited (AAFL) has taken up a plan to provide jobs for 800 trained youth of Sadar Upazila in the district in their factories to solve their unemployment problems and help them make self reliant.

Gana Unnayan Kendra, a local organization, is providing the
need base training to the youth of disaster prone areas of the
upazila under its Reducing Extreme Poor by Skills Development on
Garments project funded by Shiree/eep: a GOB and DFID
partnership.

Under this project, a total of 1100 youths including women
would be provided with training in phases so that they could work
well in their respective working places properly and change their
socio-economic condition gradually.

Of the total, as many as 42 youth of first batch have already
been engaged in garments industries in Dhaka after receiving
training on Garments and 40 youths who received training on
footwear in second batch is going to join at the factories of
AAFL on Sunday, said an official of GUK.

On Thursday, a MoU was signed between AAFL and GUK at its
training center at Nashratpur area under Sadar Upazila in the
district.

Mominul Ahsan, head of human resources of AAFL and chief
executive of GUK signed the documents on behalf of their
respective organizations.

Under this agreement, jobs of a total of 800 trained youths
including women would be provided at the factories of AAFL .

After signing MoU, head of human resources of Apex Mominul
Ahsan said the footwear industry in Bangladesh is growing fast
but our biggest constraint is to find skilled and semi-skilled
labors.

NGOs and other development agencies can support the growth by
developing new manpower for the sector, he also said.

GUK Chief Abdus Salam expressed his thankfulness to AAFL and
said Apex would set an example in eradicating poverty and hunger
of the disaster affected youths through providing jobs to them.

The function was also addressed, among others, by deputy
director of Social Service Department M. Shahidur Rahman,
progrmme manager of shire Masud Rana, adviser of GUK Sarwar
Hossain Sharif and UP chairmen Nazmul Huda Badal and Aminuzzaman
Rinku.

A large number of people including the officials of the
organizations, public representatives and the journalists were
also present on the occasion.

News Source: BSS