Domestic Bliss empowers unemployed youth

Empowered: Balopi and some of the graduates on Wednesday PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG
Empowered: Balopi and some of the graduates on Wednesday PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG

A group of students recently graduated from Domestic Bliss Superior Training Academy Botswana under the school’s free scholarship programme.

The scholarship programme is aimed at assisting unemployed youth acquire necessary skills in domestic duties. Three partners who got a franchise license from the parent company based in South Africa started the academy. The institution later got accreditation from the Botswana Qualifications Authority (BQA) and started operations in 2017.

The school has partnered with the Gaborone North constituency office to bring youth from the area in order to enroll them into the school for free. The graduating batch was made up of 20 students and it was the first batch of its size. The programme ran for four months.

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