North West Kimberley Mobile Try-A-Trade
GenerationOne joined up with DEEWR's Mobile-Try-A-Trade in the West Kimberley last week. Mobile Try a Trade is an initiative of the National Disability Coordination Officer Program (NDCO), and both the NDCO program and Mobile Try a Trade are DEEWR (Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations) funded programs.
The project is a DEEWR initiative and involves a team of skilled trades' men and women and support staff, travelling around regional and remote areas of Northern Western Australia to promote career pathways in industries experiencing skills shortages in regional Western Australia.
The aim of the events are to encourage job seekers from all school or working age factions to consider a trade as a realistic, advantageous and possible pathway, by using role models, such as that students and job seekers will relate to.
The week long event in the West Kimberley was a great success. Rio Tinto were able to flag several future Indigenous youth for positions in mining across WA, and Brolga Developments are now looking to take on a young boy from Fitzroy Crossing as a carpenters apprentice.
The team on the ground were very professional, in particular, Gary and Daniel from Rio Tinto who encouraged youth on mining apprentices. Dylan Pigram a young Broome local who is working out of Bidydanga with Brolga Developments on the Indigenous houses, was also inspiring.
The next leg of the Mobile Try-A-Trade will be starting on Monday September 6th in Newman, WA. Check out the locations and times here: www.generationone.org.au/whats-on/
Pictures from the events can be viewed here: www.facebook.com/GenerationOneAU
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Great idea. How many remote areas will you be going to,as I cannot access this on the web? I have just returned from Groote Eylandt visiting my son who is building and repairing houses in the community. They also have a scheme where they have Ingigineos people working on their team to teach them how to build and repair homes. Maybe you could check out what they are doing. On returning to work and talking to an Aboriginal Elder and she asked how many position do Mining companies have just for Aboriginals, to train in mining or other associated industries. This I see as a fair question as most LARGE and mostly overseas companies are mining minerals from Australia which are coming out of Aboriginal lands,are they providing adequate opportunity for the community to learn trades?
Great to know that TRY-A-TRADE in the NW Kimberley has been such a success.I wish you well for the expansion of this important program.