02 Nov 2015

Bobonong Brigade Centre has appealed to stakeholders and individuals to adopt the centre to ensure that it succeeds in its mission and vision.

The brigade’s principal, Ms Masego Morima said this at the brigade’s prize giving ceremony recently. She outlined the brigade’s mission as offering training in vocations leading to creation of employment and self-employment and engaging in community service projects.

Ms Morima said the centre’s vision was to alleviate unemployment amongst the youth through equipping them with life-long vocational skills. 

She said the brigade offers various courses such as auto mechanics, bricklaying, carpentry and joinery and computer studies and that students were performing well academically.

The principal urged parents to encourage students to take courses regardless of their gender, noting that students have the perception that some courses were for men or women only.

She said their brigade’s motto, education for all, guides them to do their work.

Ms Morima said although they were academically doing well they have challenges such as the lack of a library, vehicles and an administration block. 

Ms Morima appealed to students, teachers and parents to continue to work together to put their brigade among the best in the country which produces high quality graduates.

The guest speaker at the ceremony, the managing director of FMK Global Holdings, Mr Francisco Kgoboko said brigades were the ground breaking of engineers.

Mr Kgoboko said people should discard the thinking that brigades were for students who failed at senior schools, and to start enrolling in large numbers because most engineers went through brigades and technical colleges.

He said the government was now taking practical work seriously because white collar jobs were few and the country faced unemployment challenges. Mr Kgoboko said the establishment of the Human Resource Development Council (HRDC) was aimed at improving the quality of education in technical colleges and brigades.  

He urged students to take themselves seriously as well as to have love, faith and hope in their education and to have respect for their teachers.

Mr Kgoboko pledged P1 000 towards the construction of the school library, and also urged other stakeholders and individuals to help in building the school library. Ends