Saudi Arabia’s National Housing Company (NHC) has announced that it has launched the Wa’ed programme aimed at training newly graduated Saudi engineers for the local labour market.
The Wa’ed programme targets both male and female engineering graduates, offering them professional opportunities and helping them build skills and equipping them to work professionally, said a statement from NHC.
It was launched in the presence of Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs of Housing Majid bin Abdullah Al Hogail, Company CEO Engineer Mohammed bin Saleh Al Bati and other senior officials.
NHC is cooperating with specialised companies to provide more future projects to help Saudi families own property in various regions of the kingdom.
A total of 95 projects are currently under way as part of the government’s Sakani programme, which aims to provide a total of 141,000 housing units.
This comes as part of NHC's goals to provide model residential neighbourhoods with distinctive specifications within qualitative partnerships with qualified real estate developers with experience and competence in infrastructure development.
The development of these residential units under various government schemes by NHC is in line with the kingdom's ambitious plan to raise the proportion of housing ownership for Saudi families to 70% in the next 10 years under the Kingdom's Vision 2030.-TradeArabia News Service