LAHORE: Punjab Skills Development Fund (PSDF) and Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) have signed a multi-layered MOU under which they will collaborate to provide technical and vocational training in and around Lahore to the eligible children of LWMC staff that fall within PSDF’s mandate.
According to the MOU, the PSDF will provide skills training to LWMC staff’s children including customized programs for women and non-Muslim youth, by reserving upto 10 percent of its seats for its ongoing skilling programs with training service providers exclusively for LWMC staff’s children.
This will help them prepare for income generation in job markets, self-employment and entrepreneurship. The skills training trades range from traditional skills to information technology and are designed on the latest approved curricula.
In the second stage of the MOU, LWMC will collaborate with PSDF to fund whole training schemes exclusively for the eligible children of LWMC staff to help uplift worker communities in and around Lahore.
At the signing ceremony Ali Akbar Bosan, COO of the PSDF said that partnering with LWMC to help break the cycle of poverty in marginalized communities was a core mandate of PSDF. The PSDF is proud to be working with the team to manage this change and help uplift communities’ lives and financial independence, he added.
Babar Sahab Din, CEO of LWMC, said the skilling partnership was all about helping the families of LWMC staff and employees in Lahore to develop economically. “We have a huge task ahead of us and this is the right step to integrate and grow our communities,” he added
