AfriSam empowers local entrepreneurs | Roodepoort Record

AfriSam (a provider of building supplies) made available free small business capabilities education to 24 community business owners. Their graduation ceremony was held on Friday, 28 June at the AfriSam Business Improvement Centre.

As section of the company’s Organization Progress Programme, the graduates effectively finished a four-months business enterprise techniques programme designed to help entrepreneur and organization owners shut to its Roodepoort and Eikenhof operations in Gauteng.

“At AfriSam, we realize that increasing modest, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) is very important for broadening financial participation and providing on our country’s economic advancement objectives” mentioned Jabu Motlhako, Enterprise and Provider Enhancement Expert at AfriSam

In accordance Jabu, AfriSam’s Organization and Provider Progress Programme identifies, empowers and enhances the capacities of black-owned SMMEs that work in close proximity to the company’s functions. An additional vital purpose of the programme is to offer the entrepreneurs with the vital support and produce them to expand their companies and eventually be incorporated in AfriSam’s databases of registered distributors.

AfriSam picked 24 black SMMEs from communities near to its Eikenhof and Roodepoort operations for the instruction programme. The business people ended up from various industries ranging from catering, design and house growth.”The training was pretty useful to me simply because it covered a variety of matters such as commencing a enterprise and preserving it, as properly as managing the finances. I have also learnt how to do my enterprise profile. I will be in a position to go back again to my community and hire the unemployed youth,” stated Bram Fischerville entrepreneur, Peter Molete. The organization will also be assisting five of the graduating SMMEs with business office house for in between 12 and 36 months at its Enterprise Development Centre.