AfriSam empowers local entrepreneurs | Roodepoort Record

 

AfriSam (a supplier of construction components) available free company skills coaching to 24 neighborhood business owners. Their graduation ceremony was held on Friday, 28 June at the AfriSam Small business Development Centre.

As aspect of the company’s Business Advancement Programme, the graduates correctly accomplished a 4-months business enterprise expertise programme designed to help entrepreneur and small business entrepreneurs close to its Roodepoort and Eikenhof functions in Gauteng.

“At AfriSam, we fully grasp that rising smaller, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) is crucial for broadening economic participation and delivering on our country’s financial improvement objectives” said Jabu Motlhako, Organization and Provider Improvement Qualified at AfriSam

In accordance Jabu, AfriSam’s Business and Provider Development Programme identifies, empowers and boosts the capacities of black-owned SMMEs that function in close proximity to the company’s operations. A further essential goal of the programme is to give the entrepreneurs with the needed guidance and establish them to expand their businesses and in the end be provided in AfriSam’s database of registered sellers.

AfriSam selected 24 black SMMEs from communities close to its Eikenhof and Roodepoort functions for the teaching programme. The business owners were from distinct industries ranging from catering, construction and residence growth.”The training was very beneficial to me for the reason that it protected a wide variety of subject areas this sort of as starting off a small business and sustaining it, as properly as handling the funds. I have also learnt how to do my enterprise profile. I will be capable to go again to my local community and utilize the unemployed youth,” explained Bram Fischerville entrepreneur, Peter Molete. The company will also be helping 5 of the graduating SMMEs with office environment house for in between 12 and 36 months at its Enterprise Growth Centre.