SEFOPE sends another 27 Timorese workers to South Korea
The Secretariat of State of Professional Training and Employment (Portuguese acronym SEFOPE) sent in mid July, twenty-seven Timorese workers (eighteen men and nine women) to South Korea.
The Secretary of State of Professional Training and Employment, Bendito Freitas, appealed to work discipline and responsibility to the Timorese, remembering that they will carry out these functions in the name of the nation dignity that they represent. To the women workers asked that show the professionalism of the Timorese women.
The Timor-Leste Government, through the SEFOPE, created a job creation policy that goes through facilitating work abroad for the Timorese workers, with the purpose of reducing the unemployment numbers in the country. According to the draft plan, in the 2010 year, the SEFOPE will send a total of 500 workers to South Korea.
Currently there are around 265 Timorese working in South Korea, from which 231 are men and 34 are women.
