subject: Technology Talent Will Be More Popular [print this page] Close to 700 Thuto-Mfundo students - many of whom are from impoverished households -are benefiting directly from the donations by learning new skills to enhance their means of earning a living. Cash was raised for the donated items by employees of the Set Point Group which includes oil analysis specialists WearCheck and Set Point Laboratories as part of a project in a group-wide staff mentorship programme. This is the first year that Set Point has offered the training course to employees, the first ten of whom are nearing the end of their course, and who were hand-picked to undergo the rigorous one year mentoring and personal development sessions. Pinetown-based WearCheck laboratory chemist, Meshach Govender was honoured to be selected for the course, which meant travelling to Johannesburg every six weeks for meetings, attending weekly mentoring sessions and completing a variety of assignments in his spare time. Govender explains, Our group of ten mentees (students enrolled on the mentoring programme) had to devise a way to help the community as part of the course. We identified the Thuto-Mfundo Adult Centre as a worthy beneficiary, and then pooled our energy and resourcesto raise money to meet their immediate needs as well as some longer-term requirements. Govender is overwhelmed at the success of the initiative, which they named the EMAD (Education Making a Difference) project, and delighted at the tangible difference they are making in the lives of a deserving group of people. We raised money through various means, including a successful golf day in Johannesburg, to which many of our suppliers and contacts contributed. Our head office, the Set Point Group, matched the money we raised Rand for Rand, and we had to call in many favours in purchasing the computers and getting them installed for the best possible price to get maximum gain for the centre. Just knowing that we are helping people to develop skills to empower them to get jobs and thereby support their families, makes all our hard work worth it a hundred times over! In addition, as a group, the mentees have gained skills ourselves via this project, such as setting and achieving goals, developing competencies, networking, and the value of working as a team towards a common goal. Thuto-Mfundo Centre principal MsTshidi Kalaka is over the moon with the donations and partnership from the Set Point mentees. They met with us in June to discuss our needs, and shortly thereafter the Set Point mentees arrived with boxes of urgently-required stationery that enabled our students to sit their June exams. Without the stationery, the exams would have been impossible for many students to write. The computers and the sewing machines will revolutionise both teaching and learning at our centre, and give a real boost to the students, the majority of whom are destitute and have no means of changing their circumstances. In particular, the computer training courses, which are installed on a server, will ensure that the donated computers are put to use, and dont just sit there gathering dust while we wait for instructors. The new computer centre, featuring 20 fully-installed computers and a server to which all the computers are linked, was officially opened this month at the Thuto-Mfundo Adult Centre in Vosloorus.As the professional manufacturer of complete sets of mining machinery, such as Sand making machine,Rock crushing plant,Screw classifier, Henan Hongxing is always doing the best in products and service.Belt conveyor:http://www.hx-china.com/12.html jaw crusher:http://www.hx-china.com/1.html
