Opening doors to career choices

Justicia Shipena Over 1 700 students applied for the Sanlam internship programme and 110 students applied for a bursary, with a total of 15 lucky students scooping a chance. Last Thursday, Sanlam Namibia gave internship opportunities to eight young Namibians from various institutions of higher learning as part of the company's formalised placement programme. The internship will run for three months and the students will be placed within different departments. On the same day, Sanlam also awarded six students with bursaries. Since its inception in 2002, the company’s bursary programme has benefited over 50 students and aims to reward well performing but disadvantaged Namibian students at local tertiary institutions with an opportunity to pursue their education. Additionally, it aims to make a meaningful impact to the country by developing much-needed skills in the fields of accounting and finance, marketing, human resource, business administration as well as legal and actuarial science. Speaking at the event, Sanlam Group CEO Tertius Stears said despite the many initiatives government has put in place, education at tertiary level is not affordable by many, hence stakeholders need to come on board to supplement the government’s efforts. "We at Sanlam, for the past 18 years, committed ourselves to support government by joining hands and addressing some of the challenges that exist," he said. Stears added that students appointed for internships are required to complete a work integrated learning or experimental learning programme as part of their studies and the internship will thus far go towards helping students graduate. "The interns are not just here to make photocopies, tea and coffee for their bosses, they are here to work and they will be adding value to the work that we do," he said. According to minster of higher education, training and innovation, Itah Kandjii-Murangi, Sanlam's intervention in the education sector is not limited to just these bursaries and internships. "There is also the Sanlam Blue Ladder School project where Sanlam has committed funds for teacher capacity building, school furniture, hostel mattresses, textbooks, computers, science labs and more," she said. Kandjii-Murangi urged the students to study and work hard in their various departments. Also speaking at the event, the director for student records at the International University of Management, Hendrina Udjombala, said in the past, Sanlam has recruited interns as and when they were needed, but this was often done in isolation without consulting the universities. "We are thus pleased to see that the selected interns are those who need to complete an internship programme as part of their studies."

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