OLD HANDS: Level 3 Carpentry students on the 2012 Nga Kanohi Marae o Wairarapa trades training scheme with tutor Joseph Anderson (centre rear). PHOTO/FILE
OLD HANDS: Level 3 Carpentry students on the 2012 Nga Kanohi Marae o Wairarapa trades training scheme with tutor Joseph Anderson (centre rear). PHOTO/FILE
Prospective trades trainees are being targeted for the Nga Kanohi Marae o Wairarapa and WelTec open day in Masterton next week.
Scheme manager Charles Morunga said the open day, which will run next Thursday from 10am to 4pm at the WelTec School of Construction workshop in Edwin Feist Place, isaimed at attracting "all youth thinking about trades as a career".
Organisers hope the opportunity also would win the attention of schools, youth agencies and youth workers.
"If you have any rangatahi looking to do trades or just looking to do something in 2014 we ask that you encourage them to at least come and have a look at the open day we are running."
He said earlier scores of students had graduated from the scheme with numerous Level 2 graduates returning to complete Level 3 studies and 80 per cent of graduates finding paid work.
The 34-week courses were at the workshop in Edwin Feist Place and at Te Heru a Rangi Cultural and Education Centre, where Level 3 students built a house and Level 2s studied numeracy, literacy and completed jobs in carpentry, roofing, plumbing and electrical work. Nathan Crombie
