320 undergo job training at Nova Texmoque with SIM! – Skills for Youth Mozambique project

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320 undergo job training at Nova Texmoque with SIM! – Skills for Youth Mozambique project

7:08 CAT | 01 Sep 2025

Photo: Rádio Moçambique

A total of 320 young people – 210 of them women – recently began job training at Nova Texmoque. The Nampula textile company plans to hire some of the young people who complete the six-month training in cutting and sewing.

This initiative is the result of a recently signed partnership between the Skills for Youth in Mozambique (SIM!) project implemented by Helvetas Mozambique with funding from the Swiss Embassy, and Nova Texmoque, which sees this partnership as an opportunity to address the labour shortage in the face of growing demand for the company’s products.

Joana Eusébio Chapo, 32, is one of the young beneficiaries and believes this training will be a significant boost to her professional development.

“I hope this training is inclusive, that there is no bias based on people’s status or living conditions. My plan is to learn and complete the course and leave Texmoque as a successful entrepreneur, or at least be employed by the company,” she says.

The SIM! project aims to enhance (self-) employment opportunities and incomes of rural and peri-urban youth, and especially young women, in the northern provinces of Nampula and Niassa, by improving their access to market-relevant skills and training through non-formal education opportunities, supporting transition to the labour market and contributing to policies conducive to their economic inclusion.

SIM! – Skills for Youth in Mozambique

The Skills for Youth in Mozambique project builds on Switzerland’s global long standing experience in addressing skills gaps of vulnerable groups. It aims to enhance the (self-) employment opportunities of rural and peri-urban youth, in equal gender proportion, by increasing their access to relevant skills, supporting the transition to the labour market and contributing to policies conducive to their economic inclusion. This project complements interventions in SDC’s portfolio in Mozambique to reduce poverty.

Source: Rádio Moçambique with Helvetas Moçambique