D&G & HEART sign traning agreement

Noel DaCosta, Chairman, D&G Foundation congratulates, Antonette Richman on completion of level 2 of the Skills initiative as classmates look on.

D&G Foundation through a partnership with the HEART Trust NTA, 2500 young Jamaicans will be trained under the Foundation’s Learning For Life Project Employability Programme.
With the targeted number of trainees this year, project employability is poised to help the Foundation deliver on its ambition of training 15,000 young apprentices by 2018, a release from the foundation states. Approximately 12,000 Jamaicans have already benefited from training programmes under the Learning For Life Programme since its inception in 2008. Funding for the programme is provided by the D&G Foundation which is the charitable arm of Jamaica’s beer producer Desnoes and Geddes.
Full tuition support for qualified students enrolled in the various modules at HEART in the first phase of the programme is covered by the Foundation. The project started on June 5, also includes courses in Social Media Management, Small Business Management.