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MADAM Commences Nationwide ToT on Enterprenuership Curriculum for TVET Staff

By: Ibrahim Benjamin Brima Kanu


With Supports from Bread for the World and the Government of Sierra Leone through the Ministry of Technical and Higher Education, Mankind Activities for Development and Accreditation Movement (MADAM) in collaboration with National Council for Technical, Vocational and other Academic Awards (NCTVA) on Monday, 14th November, 2022 commenced a five-day Training of Trainers workshop at its conference hall situated along the Makeni -Magburaka highway.

The training drew 50 participants including principals and instructors from 14 Technical and Vocational and Training-(TVET) institutions nationwide for intensive training on the newly developed Entrepreneurship Curriculum designed to help the middle level man power to take the centerstage in the Development of the country.


Speaking to this medium, Mr. Mohamed Alie Tarawalie, the Entrepreneurship Coordinator for NCTVA gave a brief background of this program during the opening of the training and highlighted some of its importance in reducing the problems many graduates faced after several academic years of struggle and could not found a job  due to lack of entrepreneurship skills and in order to address this situation it is important for the students acquire these skills to be become job creators and not job seekers. 

Mr.Tarawalie further encouraged all principals and instructors to embrace and take the training very seriously for they have to go and share the knowledge to their students in their various institutions.


In an interview at his MADAM office, Mr. Edward Conteh, the project manager highlighted the main beneficiary of the great stride and how this ideology started.  He stated that this has started four years back upon a team work of -NCTVA, MADAM and UNIMAK upon an agreement signed with the Ministry of Technical and Higher Education to developed a harmonized Entrepreneurship Curriculum that will trained  and developed students to be able to face and solve the problem of unemployment.

According to madam Ramatu Salim Kamara, the Entrepreneurship coordinator at MADAM, the participants were rationally selected from 14 TVET institutions nationwide including; The Saint Joseph Vocational Institute Lunsar, Sierra Leone Opportunity Industrialization Centre (SLOIC) Government Technical  Institute  (GTI) among the others. She went further and said that the participants are being trained as trainers in order to go and disseminate the new ideas on Entrepreneurships to their students and their communities.

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