Mission Statement

The mission ofthe Business Skills and Development Centre is to provide marginalized black youths with practical, relevant life, business, and entrepreneurship skills as well as work experience, the empower them to become self-employed or find work in the formal sector.

What is the BSDC?

The BSDC is a Section 21 Company, incorporated not for gain. Since 1987, the BSDC has been offering training in office administration, business management and entrepreneurship to the disadvantaged community. In particular, the BSDC focuses on women (not to the exclusion of men), to improve their employability in the private and public sector. The BSDC consists of two division, namely, the training division that delivers the courses and a Youth Advisory/Placement Division.

Our statement of Values

Our people are our pillars of strength:

• The talent, passion and commitment of our people set up apart
• We value and encourage diversity
• We select and develop people for the long term
• We foster constructive self-criticism, self-improvement, and personal excellence

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men And among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes And they come back to us as effects.

HERMAN MELVILLE