KOTA KINABALU: A total of 470 people have benefited from courses organised by the Yayasan Usaha Maju (YUM) in three districts, recently.
The biscuit baking and stall food cooking course, which was held in Lahad Datu, Kunak, Tawau dan Semporna, were conducted throughout the months of May and June.
YUM managing director, Freddy Rantau, hoped, through the programme, that participants will be able to learn new skills, besides finding out business opportunities available to help improve their livelihood.
“The programme is organised under the Felda’s special fund for the state this year. More of similar training programme will be organised until end of this year,” he said.
He therefore urged YUM members to take part in such courses to learn new skills, besides improving their existing knowledge.
“Among YUM’s objective is to produce more women entrepreneurs and we are gearing our programmes towards this objective.
“It is also our hope that participants would make full use of the knowledge and skills learned, which can be useful to them in the future,” he said.
Among their future courses are entrepreneurship and book keeping.
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1. Chef Ramlin sharing his expertise in cooking with the participants, recently.
2. Among YUM members from Lahad Datu at the event, recently.
3. Participants getting a few tips on biscuit baking from the experts, recently.
4. Participants showing off the cooking skills.
5. Participants jotting down notes during the course.
6. One of the participants showing off skills in decorating the biscuit.
7. Participants at the biscuit baking course.
8. Participants showing off their cooking skills.