![]() ĭownload the HOPE Youth Summer Work Programme application form HERE Persons may download the application form at Once completed, the form can be dropped off at any HEART Trust/NTA, Jamaica Foundation for Lifelong Learning or National Youth Service (NYS) office.įor more information, persons may call 754-9816-8 or send an email to. ![]() In addition to completing an application form, persons are required to submit copies of their birth certificate, tax registration number (TRN) and national insurance scheme (NIS) cards, national or school identification card, proof of qualification (if any) and résumé. The programme consists of recruitment/selection, training, orientation, placement and monitoring. The target group, aged 17 to 29 years, will be placed in various entities for a period of three weeks, where they will gain some of the necessary skills for the world of work. The thrust, which is in line with the Government’s initiative of the Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment (HOPE) Programme, will enable 14,000 young people to benefit from valuable work experience during the months of June, July and August. The application deadline for the HOPE Youth Summer Work Programme has been extended to April 27, 2018. He said some of the other participants, whose testimonials he heard, emphasised how their lives were enhanced after being enrolled in the first phase of the programme.Application for Hope Summer Work Programme Extended to April 27 ![]() “This is a timely response to youth unemployment, which is perhaps the greatest and most pressing social and economic challenge facing our country at this moment,” Mr. The Valedictorian of the first phase of TAP, Oshane Stewart, said the programme has not only changed his life, but that of numerous others. ![]() “The estimate of unattached youth in Jamaica is well over 200,000 who want opportunities,” he said.Ĭolonel Rickman said there are numerous areas from which unattached youth can choose when they enrol, such as document management, digitising, construction, maintenance and office support. TAP created a bridge where we were able to develop within our youth the technological know-how to successfully navigate and contribute to this economy and the betterment of their lives,” she said.įor this second phase, the programme will be joined with the Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment (HOPE) programme, with which the National Coordinator, Lieutenant Colonel Martin Rickman, said they are pleased to partner, in reducing the number of unattached youth. For others, they had difficulty assimilating into a structured workforce. “Many of these young people did not complete a secondary-level education. She said that after TAP was launched in December 2017, approximately 1,000 unattached youth have been assisted between 20. “Together, the lives of some 600 young men and women will be transformed as they gain skills and experiences to actively participate in a digital society,” Mrs. Fayval Williams, said TAP will welcome unattached youth who are interested and offer them a stipend, three months’ training from the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) and nine months on-the-job experience. ![]() Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Hon. Persons interested in applying can contact the USF, which is an agency of the Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology, that is mandated to ensure Jamaica becomes a knowledge-based society. Details were outlined at the launch of the second phase of the programme at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Tuesday (July 30). ![]()
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