Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) in collaboration with the Institute of Social Work (ISW) plans to conduct entrepreneurship training to young entrepreneurs to help the group to improve their undertakings.
After the training, the CCBA will equip them with various provide trading equipment including gas stove, gas cylinder, food cabinet, cooler and branded chairs and tables.
The training targets to empowering youth employed themselves in food and beverage industry.
The food interested vendors have been advised to apply online via the link provided in Coca-Cola Kwanza’s social media platforms or get visited by the company’s team in their respective working areas.
Alternatively, according to a statement issued on Tuesday, the vendors can visit the Coca-Cola Kwanza plant located at Mikocheni Industrial Area to complete their registration for the program.
“As the biggest bottler on the continent, accounting for 40 per cent of Coca-Cola volumes sold in Africa, CCBA takes pride in doing business the right way.
“We recognize the importance of the Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in an African context, as expressed in the African Agenda 2063,” said Victor Byemelwa, Sustainability and Communications Specialist of Coca-Cola Kwanza Ltd.
According to the Specialist, the company is determined to create greater shared value in the communities purposely to ensure sustainability initiatives in each country are aligned to the National Development Plans.
“This is why we have made economic inclusion one of our key sustainability pillars.
“We define economic inclusion as opening gainful economic opportunities to under-served communities by providing access to markets that boost income and yield sustainable earnings, whilst leveraging the business and the industry,” said Byemelwa.
“We understand that our business can only thrive when the communities we serve thrive too. Investing in communities ensures our business sustainability. Most of all, we are all Africans and are part of our communities.
He added that CBA has adopted employability and entrepreneurship as a framework for its economic inclusion strategy.
“Our aim is to boost income, provide sustainable earning potential and improve skills and business knowledge for women and youth, resulting in them accessing other opportunities.
“We have a particular focus on current or potential entrepreneurs with the possibility to link to the Coca-Cola value chain today or in the future, and our “Chipsika Kiajira na Coke” youth economic inclusion programme is a great example of this strategy in action,” he concluded.
