BY PHUMELELE MKHONTA
MBABANE – An institute that attends to its alumni and students’ future!
This is BSA Training Centre, which today revealed that they would be giving out loans for business start-ups for their outgoing, current and incoming students.
Revealing this information was BSA Training Centre Director Delisa Dlamini during Letishisako on EBIS 1 (Eswatini Broadcasting and Information Service).
According to the institute’s website, BSA Training Centre is a skills development institution, that saw its existence as a direct response to the gap the directors of the centre had identified in challenges faced by individuals with skills that need nurturing, but lack academic qualification to permit them to enroll in higher institutions of learning.
Explaining, Dlamini said they would award loans to students they noticed were struggling with school fees and have viable business plans.
“We will be involved in the process of assisting them create their business plans and apply for loans. We will roll out loans next year, as we are now winding up the past financial year,” said Dlamini.
When asked what if the students were not able to pay back due to failed business, Dlamini said they would have to stomach it because they would have been involved in the planning and prosecution- meaning they would also hold themselves accountable.
“However, we will be revolving the money- meaning when others pay other will get loans. So we will always have a loan budget for our outgoing students and current students,” said Dlamini.
Every year, since 2013, BSA Training Centre has enrolled students all over the country, who wished to pursue trade skills. According to the BSA Training Centre, tis quality is what sets BSA apart from other many institutions- empowering emaSwati with skills. Students at BSA Training Centre are exposed more to practical course work, as per the slogan ‘learn by doing’. BSA Training Centre seeks to provide a platform to the less fortunate and aspiring students who for several reasons cannot be absorbed by general institutions of higher learning focusing on academic results more than trade skills possessed by the learners.
