117 get garment jobs under new initiative

EPZ apparel factories employ 42,500 workers. FILE PHOTO | NMG

A Mombasa-based garment factory has hired 117 machine operators underlining the potential of short-term courses in jobs generation for the youth in the export sector.

East Africa Trade Hub said the new employees were the first batch of trainees that went through an eight-week teaching at clothes factories based in Nairobi and Mombasa.

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