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Corporate Social Investment Initiative

Pro-Networks is very proud to be part of the HP Business Institute Graduate Program. HPBI is an enterprise and skills development program aimed at graduates from previously disadvantaged backgrounds, focusing on developing scarce and critical skills in high growth areas of the IT Industry. These skills will be delivered through and into existing B-BBEE SME IT companies (Pro-Networks), thus enabling these companies to break through into the more sustainable high-end of the IT Industry. The program is designed to train 1,800 students over the next six and a half years.       In conjunction with selected partners (Pro-Networks), HP identified individuals who will be placed in short-term skills programs and one year learnerships. This will equip them with the necessary ICT skills, thus creating employment opportunities and helping to close the skills gap in the ICT sector. One of these graduates is currently employed at Pro-Networks.     The HPBI initiative is aligned with the Department of Communication’s national e-Skills strategy, which aimes to address the ICT skills requirements for the sector.