-in form of operational capacity
PROJECTS that were funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and will help an untold number of students at the Kuru Kuru Training Centre on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway were commissioned on Friday last.
UNDP invested more than $28 million for the complete rehabilitation of the Centre’s training building, and extension of the male and female dormitories as well as the kitchen and mess hall areas.
Assistant Director of Youth Mr. Devanand Ramdatt, who is responsible for the Training Centre, expressed gratitude to UNDP for its assistance.
He also stated that UNDP has been a partner of the Centre for quite some time, and has consistently sponsored individuals desirous of pursing studies at the facility on an annual basis, moreso in the Youth Entrepreneurial Skills Training Programme (YEST).

Those individuals, Ramdatt explained, are from the various administrative regions of the country.
The Government Information Agency reported that the rehabilitation of these areas will see more resident students and the training building will provide better space for them to conduct their practical sessions.
The Kuru Kuru Training Centre is home to the YEST programme, a government initiative executed by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport that sees out-of-school youths (between the ages of 16 – 25) being trained in an array of technical and vocational areas.
The YEST programme is conducted at the Sophia Training and Kuru Kuru Training Centres and has graduated in excess of 1,000 youths from across the country.