MONROVIA, May 1 (LINA) -The Liberia Refugee, Repatriation and Resettlement Commission (LRRRC) has honored seven cadet students for committed service to the commission.
The intern students, who served the commission for three months, were also certificated and urged to utilize the training they acquired during their internship.
LRRRC Executive Director Cllr. Abla G. Williams told the interns that it was through the initiative of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf that the National Cadets Program was re-introduced, as a means of empowering the young people of Liberia.
She reminded the intern students that from cadet jobs they could make career choices by adequately making use of the knowledge they acquire during their job training.
Earlier, the Director of Youth Development at the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Sando James, thanked LRRRC and other government institutions for accepting the cadets to undergo job training at their agencies.
Mr. James observed that some government functionaries are in the habit of rejecting the cadets on grounds that their institutions were facing budgetary constraints.
He disclosed that his ministry has applied for budgetary increment to extend the cadet training tenure from three months to one year in the next fiscal year.
James emphasized that the National Cadet program is the President’s heart-beat because it is intended to train and create job opportunities for young people in the country.
The Ministry of Youth and Sports, in partnership with the NGO Mercy Corps, reintroduced the National Cadet Program to reduce the high rate of unemployment among young people by providing them job training opportunities in the public sector for three months.
Meanwhile, the LRRRC has absorbed the seven cadets into the Commission’s employ based on their output.
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