Barbara Kirby works for the MiHR, the Mining Industry Human Resources sector council of Canada and we invited her to Colombia to present about the work this organization does in Canada together with all stakeholders in the mining sector. Barbara arrived in Bogota on Monday and on Tuesday she presented (with help of our Texan Jeff as excellent translator) to a group of 25-30 SENA Managers.
The sector councils in Canada work on activities to prevent ups & downs in the labor market, and they design certification processes for skilled workers who previously have not been recognized as such. These councils do lots of work both with employers and with the trainers such as community colleges. For SENA the experiences in Canada are very valuable and it was no surprise that the attendees on Tuesday had a sincere interest. This presentation had as objective to create interest for more of these dialogues during the coming three years of the EFE program.
Tuesday evening we flew to Medellin where there is this week a three day mining fair. Today we had a few meetings organized with the SENA team at the provincial ministries of agriculture, mining and youth programs to explain our program and to invite them for Barbara's presentations on Thursday.
From the ministry buildings I enjoyed the views over the city in between the meetings.....
Tomorrow we will have two sessions of Barbara's presentation in the morning and the afternoon for a variety of people: government, industry and small scale miner associations. More later...
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