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By Margaret Sheard ……
We recently visited the new building which houses the Kyrenia Youth and Resource Centre – GIGEM, in Girne, which has been set up under the umbrella of SOS Children’s Villages, to offer training and help for 16-26 year old young people in the Girne area considered to be at risk, who would like to make a better life for themselves through work skills and social activities.
SOS Children’s Village in Lefkoşa have 2 job opportunities and are inviting applications to fill these positions from suitable candidates. A wonderful opportunity to work with SOS to provide family based care for children in North Cyprus.
SOS Children’s Village Association is seeking a full time individual, for a minimum of 28 months employment, for the position of a “Project Coordinator”, under the European Union funded project called “Kyrenia Youth and Resource Centre”. To view the criteria required click here
A husband and wife team required to give parental care to children in their SOS family home. To view the criteria required click here
SOS Children’s Village provides family based care for children who have lost family care, works to strengthen families with children at risk of losing family based care, and provides education for pre-school aged children.
Working in the framework of the mission, “Every child belongs to a family and grows with love, respect and security”, and as a pioneer of child rights in the country, it has been serving the community since 1993.
Recruitment at SOS Children’s Village is done based on open vacancies and the selection of candidates is based on the required skills.
We accept applications for open vacancies and all applications are saved in our database, available for consideration for other vacancies and positions.
Candidates who possess the required qualifications and suit the organisation’s culture and values are selected for the interview process. They are interviewed by the department manager, co-workers and HR personnel.
All applicants are informed of the process and the state of their applications.
For more information: ik@soscocukkoyu.org.
By Chris Elliott…….
Summer came this year with a vengeance and at the start of the autumn we are still sweltering here in Northern Cyprus and many expat swallows are returning to their home from home plus increasing numbers of tourists are arriving.
Night life has long been a thing to be enjoyed, from just enjoying a nice cool drink and chatting with friends or even enjoying a nice meal.
Some folk just love entertainment and we have seen a flood of venues and entertainers reaching out to promote their events in newspapers and other media this year and in view of the problems entertainers faced last year, perhaps we will soon learn more of the new arrangements that may have been made for expatriate entertainers to perform in Northern Cyprus than was available to them in 2015.
Last year in the Cyprus Today newspaper it was reported as shown below that a new entertainment agency “Elite Entertainment” was being formed by Dave Griffiths much to the delight of musicians Gavin Simons and Barry “Snakes” Steward but since then nothing has been heard of this agency.
The good news reported in the Cyprus Today newspaper of 3rd September 2016 is that Gavin Simons plus Alan Bartholomew have now started an agency A-Chord Entertainment Ltd
which will provide multi venue work permits for expat entertainers to perform legally in Northern Cyprus.
To read the full Cyprus Today report please click here
We wish them all well and hope that those expat entertainers who take up this opportunity of working legally by obtaining multi venue work permit from A-Chord Entertainment Ltd do not find their efforts undercut by the illegal entertainers, many from outside the TRNC.
The only way of preventing this is for the TRNC authorities to enforce the rules regarding employment which would see those who have registered to work as entertainers being supported by the suppression of illegal entertainers and those that employ them but sadly that does not seem to have been done very successfully during 2016.
By Chris Elliott…….
November 2015………
The beloved remaining expat entertainers of ASAP have now set course for their individual futures and at the end of this month All Stars Agency Promotions will cease operation. 
Who knows, perhaps the agency will be mothballed until such times as the employment laws are changed to make it easier for expat entertainers to perform legally and more economically.
The good news is that the Cyprus Today newspaper of 7/11/2015 reported this past weekend that a new company “Elite Entertainment” is being formed and should commence operations at the end of this month. It is reported that they will not be operating as an agency but rather helping expat entertainers gain multi-venue permits, although the question of full time work permits has not been clearly reported.
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