My Father\u2019s House in collaboration with Simon\u2019s Town police and the community policing forum (CPF) relaunched their blue bib project as a means to create job opportunities for informal parking attendants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dylan James, board secretary at My Father\u2019s House, says the project was aimed at creating entry level jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe blue bib project is the community partnering with the police through My Father\u2019s House to help reinvigorate the entry level job creation project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are taking people who were just informal parking attendants and we are giving them an opportunity to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey will have access to social workers, they will have access to training and we are doing emergency first aid responder training with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added: \u201cWe are also doing training with them with wildlife, emergency rescue for sea birds. So they are basically the eyes and ears on the street.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Around 15 people signed up at the relaunch that was held at Simon\u2019s Town Police Station on Tuesday 13 September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are looking for partners to help us equip them with cellphones that we can link them with all the Wi-Fi networks with all the shops up and down Simon\u2019s Town, so that if they see someone have a heart attack they can go provide emergency first aid assistance but also alert the authorities if they see someone breaking into a car or see suspicious characters or see a penguin being hit. They are out there on the road,\u201d says James.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The idea is to assist the individuals with further product knowledge via tourism training and to become embassadors of Simon\u2019s Town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are hoping that with the blue bib programme we can integrate people back into the formal economy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tony Fiellies, a parking attendant who has been living in Simon\u2019 Town for close to 14 years, says he has learnt various skills through the programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am a former prison gangster myself and have been living in Simon\u2019s Town for 13 to 14 years. We used to be the pink bibs, but have now relaunched to blue bibs and we hope and pray that we are going to do a better job this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe programme has helped us and teaches us a lot of things such as communication, business skills, life-orientation, how to present yourself in a business format and with structuring how to speak to people and address people and also welcoming people to Simon\u2019s Town.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added that the programme has helped him to transform his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor me coming from my background this is such a complete transformation and a complete change. I\u2019ve been parking cars at Glencairn Beach for the past 13 years, I do have my own clientele as such and with the blue bibs I can say there is a vast difference because we are now being regulated by My Father\u2019s House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThanks to Dylan and My Father\u2019s House, they have helped me so far.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Simon\u2019s Town Police Station commander Capt Vishnu Pillay says the relaunch was to recommit the individuals to safeguarding Simon\u2019s Town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe relaunch of the blue bibs is to uplift these people. Basically the project was falling down, there was no commitment previously. Now we are re-committing them to their job to safeguard Simon\u2019s Town and to be a watchful eye for the people and to reintegrate them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe people who are here are unemployed and from the Simon\u2019s Town area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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