Dear valuable Reader,

We are happy to announce that the State Vocational Training School „Ludwig Bölkow“ in Donauwörth/Germany has donated a BOSCH Electro-Pneumatical Exercise and Simulation device to HELOG Academy. It is intended to be hand over to HELOG Academy Liberia with the next shipment. This training device is complementing the already existing FESTO Hydraulic exercise system and will significantly extend the capacity of HELOG Academy Liberia in teaching this technology.

 

We are deeply grateful for this high value donation!

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NEW APPOINTMENT

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Jackson N. Wonde to the role of Manager for Public relation issues, liaisons to the NGO sector and acquisition of new opportunities.
Jackson Newray Wonde comes to Helog Academy with vast experience from International organizations, government and the private sector. He is the author of two books and served as Editor of the Liberian Times Magazine as well as columnist for other newspapers and magazines.
He is a professional humanitarian worker always focused on the wellbeing of his beneficiaries.
Jackson worked abroad specifically in Guinea as IT Specialist for reputable INGOs during emergency and relief periods.
As consultant, he worked on the USAID Advancing Youth project for several international institutions and held positions as Monitoring and Evaluation consultant for international and public organizations.
Mr. Wonde holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mass communication from the University of Liberia with MCSE Certificate, Associate Degree in Mass Communication from Conakry-Universite de Kofe Annan and an A+ certificate from CompuTech Informatique Internationale Conakry Guinea.
In many other functions in the CSR field Mr. Wonde proofed being a team player and the right person to integrate in our team.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please join us in welcoming Jackson to the team!

 

First Intership accomplished

„When we launched this special program one year ago we received an extremely skeptical response. Today our success confirmed that we were right and the overwhelming support from the industry is our commitment for the future.“

Wolfgang Zagel, Founder

 

Dear valuable Reader,

We are proud students of HELOG Academy Liberia and are happy to successfully finish our first 3 weeks internship. See our résumé to this great experience we made:

 

• The internship exposes new ideas to me, both practical and theory.
• In the companies, we do more hands on jobs as this helps us to be hard working
• I felt very privileged to be in the HELOG School system, and to attend internship as part of the dual system.   

 

 

• It gives a good feeling of the dual system
• We were encouraged to continue with our studies.
• Yes, we were not completely lost because most of the things we studied were applied.
• We saw and learnt something new

 

 

• It was an excellent idea to go for internship as it opened my eyes
• We were taken care of and everyone at the company was eager to see the students from HELOG.
• Now I better understand the tasks of the internship and the impact on the school training

 

 

 

 

• The instructors were free with us
• Once I want to become either Mechatronic engineer or Helicopter mechanic
• The interaction with the boss and other workers was impressing

 

 

• The idea of internship, was very much useful to me with regards what I intend to be.
• We now know some of the functionalities of accompany
• Yes, my dream has been, to become an industrial mechanics and now I’m inspired.
• We felt the effect of “Corporate Culture” in the company, been taught by our school boss Mr. Soka

 

 

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Words of gratitude by Joseph Soka, School director to the supporting companies:

On behalf of the HELOG team, I register my thanks and appreciation for your kind support, given to our students in your noble institutions, during their internship training which, lasted for three weeks.

The feedback we got from the students, regarding how they were been treated by your team, really gave us a good impression and proved to us that it was not a mistake, when we selected your institutions for our students to go through their internship trainings.

You have actually shown commitment, in joining forces together with HELOG Academy Liberia, to prepare the future workforce for a prosperous tomorrow.
We will enhance the materials which, you have given to our students and ensure that more values are added unto them.

Again thank you very much for your appreciated support and we will absolutely maintain this good relationship.

 

 

 

New donation of the State Vocational Training Center Wasserburg a. Inn

Dear valuable Reader,

In July this year HELOG received a generous donation of two fully functioning automobile engines (BMW and Toyota) each mounted on a mobile rack, from the State Vocational Training Center Wasserburg a. Inn / Germany, including an electronic test and diagnosis stand which will enable the students to simulate malfunctions on engines, and to find instructions on how to rectify or repair the problems.

We now have the similar equipment available as it is used in every modern automobile service center. This is another step forward to provide excellent trained engineers to the high skill demanding industry.

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Purchase of a second hand school bus in Germany

Those who have already experienced travelling on public transport in Africa may understand the problems our students are faced with on daily basis to reach our campus in time.

To battle this challenge the board of HELOG Academy started a campaign to raise funds for a large second hand shuttle bus.

Our sincere thanks and appreciation to our generous donors from the private business in Liberia, that through their contributions, we could finally buy a bus in Germany and currently prepare it for shipment. It is a MAN A 20 type, 37 seats plus standing for 38 persons.

For the shipping costs we have to start a new funding raising campaign in order to ease the transportation problems of the students, because these costs are in the range of USD 9,000.00!

Anyone who supports us in funding the shipping is welcome!

 

Conference in Leipzig, Post Ebola Liberia, June 15, 2016

The chairman of HELOG Academy, Wolfgang Zagel and the General Manager Andrea Burg attended this conference which has been organized by the Honorary Consul Michael Kölsch and the Chamber of Commerce Leipzig.
In his speech, Wolfgang Zagel took the opportunity to point out the importance of vocational training in Liberia not just because of the post Ebola period. Under the headline: “Vocational training – No time to wait – No time to postpone” he expressed his concerns that every year a new generation of young people leaves the high schools and rush to the labor market, in addition to this, over 2 million young people, within the age up to 30 are already unemployed. This could cause a critical effect to the
political stability of the nation.
He urged that there is no time to wait, there is no time to postpone, and there is even no time to discuss and to develop long reports about this serious situation. A quick coordinated action is necessary to fill this large gap in vocational education. The government is promoting foreign investment. But any investment requires an educated workforce. Mr. Zagel presented a simple formula:

No education – No investment – No investment – No economic growth

HELOG rely on the responsibility of the private industry, not only to their corporate social responsibility commitment but also to their purely economic interests. HELOG is the initiator of a vocational education pact with the industry, the HELOG Academy pact. The cooperation with the private sector will enable the Academy a sustainable future and provide to the industry educated future employees. He expressed that the mission of HELOG is not just to provide vocational training concepts; it is also a strong contribution for the future economic success of the country.

Klick here >> for an abstract of the speech manuscript  Conference in Leipzig excerpt of the speech delivered by W Zagel_1