ADDIS ABABA – Rolling sleeves to send skilled human power abroad is underway, so disclosed Ministry of Labor, and Social Affairs (MoLSA).
Dereje Taye, PR and Communication Director within the Ministry, told The Ethiopian Herald that aside from sending citizens for handling menial and domestic jobs, the country is doing its level best to facilitate more job opportunities abroad for skilled citizens. Ethiopia is negotiating with different countries to send professional human power.
Discussions
are ongoing with some countries like Japan, Germany and Netherlands, among
others. Process is well on progress to send a number of skilled citizens to
Japan. By way of paving the way, MoLSA is grooming citizens who are qualified
to go to acquire basic language skills and to meet other prerequisites Japan
needs, he said.
The salient task, creating understanding with countries has finalized. The Germany and Netherlands delegations are due to come very soon for discussions, he noted. After the agreement with United Arab Emirates was finalized, delegates had visited the training areas where driving and nursing courses, among others, are given, Dereje said. Technical and vocational education is also entailed in the program.
He noted that the delegates had evaluated the capacity of the training places before a month and they had a positive view about the training centers which can create skilled citizens who satisfy their criteria. MoLSA is working to create skilled and qualified human power and accordingly after satisfying some preconditions, it will start to send citizens abroad for professional job, he added.
As to him, The Saudi Arabia Embassy has also made clear its country’s demand of skilled teachers. Therefore, down the road the country needs to hire Ethiopian teachers, it is also another opportunity for the country’s educated people. Dereje noted that this job opportunity abroad will help slash down the ever-growing unemployment rate in the country and also it will also parry the pressure of illegal migration.
The Ethiopian Herald, Sunday Edition, October 27/2019
BY GENET FEKADE
