Bank Windhoek paves the way for the generation of knowledge

The 2022 WorldSkills Africa competition took place on 28 March in Swakopmund. Bank Windhoek’s executive officer of corporate and institutional banking, Lukas Nanyemba, said because Bank Windhoek is a Namibian-owned bank, it deemed it essential to sponsor the hosting of the second contest of WorldSkills Africa. This allowed the youth from all parts of Africa to take part and showcase their wide array of skills.Bank Windhoek was the gold sponsor of the WorldSkills Africa Swakopmund skills competition, and it pledged one million Namibian dollars to assist the Namibia Training Authority (NTA) in staging the event. Competitors were ten teams across Africa who competed in sixteen skills and all aspired to be prestigious title holders of African Champion, meanwhile preparing for the Shanghai WorldSkills competition that will be held in China later this year.Chris Humphries, the WorldSkills international president from the United Kingdom, said that 65% of the African population is under the age of 25 so this is the time to make development more accessible, agile, industrially relevant, and forward-looking. Jacquiline Pack, the executive officer of marketing and corporate communication services at Bank Windhoek when asked what this meant to the youth, said that the Namibian youth have the potential to drive the economy by not only being employable, but also creating employment in the future. She added that by 2050, Africa will account for more than half of the world’s population growth, with more than half of that population under the age of 25. “The potential for economic growth and innovation through skills development in Africa is enormous,” she said. Over the last week, the youth have been exposed to high levels of skills through interaction and engagement. The competition has given the participants knowledge of the importance of vocational education and also a platform to showcase their skills and compete on the global stage.This competition took place under the auspices of WorldSkills International, as well as the African Union. WorldSkills International bestowed the right to host the second edition of the competition to Namibia, following the inaugural event that was staged in Kigali, Rwanda, in 2018. WorldSkills Africa Swakopmund 2022 ended on Saturday, inclusive of an international conference, and a careers exhibition.

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