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1st July, 2010
KOTA KINABALU: Two mothers never feel it was too late to get a paper qualification despite having a family to tend to.
Lovini Pingu, 33, and Enjilin Gunsalam, 40, are instead proud of themselves after they become the first batch of 36 trainees who completed a six-month training program on make-up and hair grooming and structure wielding and fabrication.
The two moms took up the grooming programme and both programmes were organized by the Human Resource Development Department in collaboration with INSTEP-Petronas (Institute Technology Petroleum) which provided the financial support.
The program which started in January was conducted at Technical Training and Commerce Institute in Kota Kinabalu and Papar which saw 23 women completed the grooming programme and 13 youths completed the structure wielding and fabrication program.
For both mothers, and Lovini Pingu, 33 and Enjilin Binti Gunsalam, 40 who had enrolled for the Make Up and Hair Grooming program were ecstatic when their names were called.
Livini, despite being a single mother to a 15-year-old daughter, said she had gained much experience and knowledge from the programme.
“It has made me a more confident person and now I am ready to venture out.
“With this achievement, I want to show to my daughter that she too could be proud of what I’m doing,” she said adding that since both her parents had passed on she has been relying on a relative to take care of her daughter in a village in Keningau.
Enjilin who hails from Kota Belud said her children aged nine and six years had picked up an advertisement on the programme from a local daily.
“I was jobless for six years but now I’m looking forward to opening up a small business,” she said.
Meanwhile, the best male trainee went to Rahizan Abdul Rahman who owed his success in completing the training programme with the support from his parents.
“At first, I wanted to enroll in an electrical program but after I was offered this one, my parents encourage me so I immediately took up the offer,” he said in advising unemployed youths not to give up as the department offers vast programmes for them to choose from.
State Human Resource Development Department director Billy Yumbod said the six-month program which is offered free saw an increased number of applications.
He said the department wanted to develop skills and knowledge of local youths and would add more programmes such as reflexology in the future.
“Our priority is to give opportunities to single mothers, less fortunate and unemployed youths to hone a skill,” he said.
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