A group of volunteers from HSBC travelled to Tissamahamaharama to help local school students and their parents learn how to gain necessary skills to thrive in the modern workplace.The 15-strong group from Colombo, spent a day at the Mahasenpura School and two rural schools Osuwinna and Ranminithenna, as part of a horizon expanding exercise.
During the morning session, individual team members related their personal life stories to show that students from even the remotest background that they too could aspire to similar jobs if they worked hard to gain the right educational qualifications.
The team explained as to why IT and English are particularly important for office-based jobs. As such, they encouraged the parents of Grade Nine students to add the two subjects to their children’s O-level list.
They also highlighted why gaining real world experience through job placements is as important as educational certificates in the eyes of many future employers.
In the afternoon, the HSBC team handed out prizes to students from the Hambantota area who had participated in a zonal-wide Power Point competition organized by the School’s Relief Initiative (SRI), a local NGO. The Bank had been working with SRI since 2009 to help students enhance their employability and as the sole sponsor of the NGO’s Regional Training Centre, located in the grounds of Mahasenpura School.
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