LoAnne Stuurman has been working at Emmanuel Retirement Care since completing her Frail Care course in December 2017. Lorenzo Alkaster has been working as a casual in Spiro’s Mica Hardware since doing a job shadow at the company. He says that the job readiness course gave him the confidence he
The last term has seen our pool of job shadow partners increase across all our training disciplines. Frail Carers now have the opportunity of completing their practical training at Aristea, Andre van der Walt, Boland, Green Pastures, Klaradyn, Luckhoff, Villa Cortona and now also at Oude Westhoff. Office Basics learners
We have so many amazing volunteers that offer their valuable time and sometimes resources to impact student’s lives at FCD. We would like to say THANK YOU to every volunteer who has walked into FCD and without whom we would not be here. We want you to know that you
We are grateful to our Frail Care institutions that partner with us to either host our students for their practical training, or source trained carers from our pool of qualified candidates. Caronicia Hanekom, one of our Frail Care students is working at Iris House. Lee-Ann Lewis, Khanyiswa Memke and Lucinda
Inspired by the Mandela Day message of “Take action; inspire change; make every day a Mandela Day”, Pepperclub Hotel & Spa in Cape Town decided launched its Mandela Day Pepperclub Hotel & Spa Upskilling Programme, benefitting three candidates from the Fisantekraal Centre for Development – a non-profit centre for
Students, staff and trainers shared some insights into their roots by donning a variety of traditional outfits – from Sotho to Cape Minstrel to Voortrekker. After a joyful march to the rythm of Shosholoza, we stopped at FCD to sing Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika and enjoy a good ol’ South African
AmyLee Farao promoted at Portland Quarry Appointed as an operations clerk at Portland Quarry, Amy Lee so impressed her manager, Jaco Nel, with her eagerness to learn and apply herself that he promoted her to take on responsibility of taking and scheduling orders for their ReadyMix customers. Jaco says that
When Spectacle Warehouse recently embarked on a recruitment campaign, they contacted FCD to provide them with CVs of suitable candidates for positions that they were hoping to fill. We were pleased to be able to provide them with several CVs of students who had completed our Office Basics course. Danielle