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Skills project reaches out to rural communities

Skills project reaches out to rural communities

KEETMANSHOOP – Communal farmers in the South are losing out on possible income from their livestock because of a lack of proper knowledge about processing meat and meat products.

As a result, the Karas Community Skills Development Centre (Cosdec) this year decided to offer a course in meat-processing. The head of the Cosdec centre, Tim Frederick, told Nampa in an interview that the course would target rural communities in order to enable them to market their livestock products.Frederick said the move was aimed at uplifting the living conditions of some rural people who remained poor although they had been farming for ages.Karas Cosdec would create its own market to sell meat and by-products produced by the trainees selected for the training programme.Trainees would be allowed to sell their products through the market created by the institution until they were able to stand on their own feet.Frederick noted that Karas Cosdec would also help those who successfully completed the course to get start-up capital from financial institutions.Successful trainees are expected assist other community members to process and store their meat products, This would, in turn, mean additional income for others.Frederick stressed that most courses offered at Karas Cosdec would in future focus on specific product-related training aimed at income generation.He added that the market was not always able to absorb graduates from competence based training.- NampaThe head of the Cosdec centre, Tim Frederick, told Nampa in an interview that the course would target rural communities in order to enable them to market their livestock products.Frederick said the move was aimed at uplifting the living conditions of some rural people who remained poor although they had been farming for ages.Karas Cosdec would create its own market to sell meat and by-products produced by the trainees selected for the training programme.Trainees would be allowed to sell their products through the market created by the institution until they were able to stand on their own feet.Frederick noted that Karas Cosdec would also help those who successfully completed the course to get start-up capital from financial institutions.Successful trainees are expected assist other community members to process and store their meat products, This would, in turn, mean additional income for others.Frederick stressed that most courses offered at Karas Cosdec would in future focus on specific product-related training aimed at income generation.He added that the market was not always able to absorb graduates from competence based training.- Nampa

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