Minerals minister, Anthony Mavunde (Centre) shake hand with the leader of Kanisa Halisi La Mungu Baba, Baba Halisi, during a special training on entrepreneurship skills
By VALENTINE OFORO
OVER 400 staff from different national security forces, public and private institutions and the citizens from various social groups in Dodoma region are taking part in a special training focuses to disseminate key knowledge and skills on entrepreneurship.
The timely practical-based free training has been organized by Kanisa Halisi la Mungu Baba in cooperation with the police force with an eye to impart the participants with useful skills pertaining to different facets of entrepreneurship.
The entrepreneurship skills under the training rolling -out incorporate production of carpets, batik, liquid soaps, product’s packaging, handwashing soaps, wedding cakes, shampoo, as well as vegetable processing, to mention but a few.
Speaking during the project’s official inception event, the minister of minerals, Anthony Mavunde, who serves as lawmaker for Dodoma town constituency hailed the church for collaborating with the police force in organizing the vital training.
In his remarks, the minister said the region was offering numerous potential economic opportunities, but most of the Dodoma dwellers are short of needed skills to assist them benefiting from the prevailing opportunities.
“Being the country’s government administrative hub, Dodoma region keeps on witnessing increased human population on daily bases, the situation which is seeing skyrocketing demand for various social services and human products,” he said.
With the skills to be acquired in the four-day training, the minister observed that the participants will stand on a positive side to engage on self- economic projects to manufacture basic domestic products and marketing them at patriotic, but profitable prices.
“High human population means high demand for domestic products and thus, make sure you use this platform effectively to absorb relevant knowledge and skills,” challenged the participants.
He said the sixth phase government was working to create conductive business doing environment and provide capital loans to youth and women in order to venture into fruitful economic projects of which, entrepreneurship skills must come first.
For his part, leaders of Kanisa Halisi La Mungu Baba (The True Church of God The Father) , Baba Halisi expressed that the church was preaching peace, unconditional love and wealth production.
“When God created a man, his prime wish was to see him producing wealth through sober use of the diverse natural resources that he (Lord) has placed under the sun for the purpose of enabling human being to live healthier and happier while praising God, and not crying and often begging him,” he unveiled.
The world-wide renowned faith-based leader, Baba Halisi said the ongoing training was part of the church’s spiritual responsibility to assist the communities, apart from prayers.
“We at the church, as per our worshiping schedule, we are gathering each day early in the morning to pray for the welfare of the entire nation, and for the leaders in power, and we have nothing to implicate ourselves to any kind of politics,” he informed.
He insisted that the role of the church, apart from preaching the word of Lord, is to empower the community to escape from shackles of poverty, added that the training was for playing the role in question.
“Upon completion of this training, the participants will be awarded with the relevant certificates to allow them be recognized with the government’s set business regulations,” Baba Halisi unveled in the training which also featured clerics from different Christian and Muslim denominations, as well as pagans.
With its headquarters in Tegeta, Dar es Salaam, Kanisa Halisi la Mungu Baba which is led by ‘Baba Halisi’ has its branches in several countries within the continent as well as in Europe and America.
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