AfriSam (a supplier of building components) offered absolutely free business expertise education to 24 nearby business owners. Their graduation ceremony was held on Friday, 28 June at the AfriSam Business enterprise Growth Centre.
As element of the company’s Enterprise Improvement Programme, the graduates properly done a four-months enterprise capabilities programme built to aid entrepreneur and business enterprise entrepreneurs close to its Roodepoort and Eikenhof operations in Gauteng.
“At AfriSam, we recognize that expanding modest, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) is essential for broadening economic participation and offering on our country’s economic progress objectives” reported Jabu Motlhako, Business and Supplier Growth Specialist at AfriSam
In accordance Jabu, AfriSam’s Company and Provider Improvement Programme identifies, empowers and improves the capacities of black-owned SMMEs that work in shut proximity to the company’s functions. Another important intention of the programme is to give the entrepreneurs with the vital guidance and acquire them to grow their organizations and in the long run be integrated in AfriSam’s database of registered vendors.
AfriSam selected 24 black SMMEs from communities near to its Eikenhof and Roodepoort functions for the training programme. The entrepreneurs were from distinctive industries ranging from catering, building and residence advancement.”The training was incredibly beneficial to me due to the fact it included a range of subjects such as starting off a enterprise and protecting it, as effectively as handling the finances. I have also learnt how to do my business profile. I will be equipped to go back again to my local community and hire the unemployed youth,” claimed Bram Fischerville entrepreneur, Peter Molete. The business will also be assisting 5 of the graduating SMMEs with office house for among 12 and 36 months at its Business enterprise Growth Centre.