The Ottawa Mission is launching a new initiative to teach vulnerable community members to obtain employment. On Tuesday, the Mission announced it is launching the Maintenance Services Training Program, which at first will teach students to become building superintendents. "There is a huge need.
There's no other place that we know, across Canada that is doing a program for building superintendents," said Andy Higgs, manager of maintenance with the Ottawa Mission. Higgs will be sharing his knowledge, providing classroom and hands on experience in what it takes to operate a building, "They're going to be doing anywhere from minor plumbing, minor electrical, minor drywall. And they're the eyes and ears of the building.
They're there every day. They're assessing, and they're keeping the building operational," he said. Higgs says this training, will lead to employment.
“100 per cent there will be work for them. We've got, a couple large donors who also for our first year, has been willing to take them on and give them employment," he said. FOOD TRAINING PROGRAM MARKS 20TH ANNIVERSARY The maintenance program builds on the success of the Mission’s Food Training Program, which has trained hundreds of students to work in commercial kitchens across Ottawa, "This is how you end homelessness," said Ottawa Mission CEO Peter Tilley.
"You provide people with hope and dignity and a chance at a career so that they can move on into a one bedroom or two bedroom apartment." Tilley says the fo.
