Vocational Training: Lead to Finding a Job

Vocational training opportunities at communities, private workshops, collective businesses, Community Villa or in a Development Service Centers are provided to youths (of 15-18 years) from disadvantaged family backgrounds. All courses are below 12 months duration and constantly adjusted to production based and market oriented. Life skills and small business training are integrated in the skills training curriculum.
District-based “Community Villas” provide skills and apprenticeship training as commercially operated restaurants, with exhibition-cum-sales shops attached for products manufactured at communities and skills training workshops in the project areas. Trainees are provided entrepreneurship skills and earn their income during the training period. Skills training at communities are oriented to set up small enterprises to promote village productions and services as well as job employment at the rural. Job Counseling is provided to achieve small enterprise at village level and to provide job placement for graduated trainees at private workshops.

• Communities: Grass mat weaving, food processing, broom making, sewing souvenir, rattan souvenir and rattan mat weaving.
• PWS: carpentry, dessert making, barbering, wood carving, bicycle repairing, rattan souvenir, electric welding, massage and broom making.
• Development Service Centers: Carpentry, rattan souvenir, sewing souvenir, masonry, tin smiting and bucket souvenir.
• Restaurant: Ice cream making, soft drink and cooking.

• 73% of accomplished skills trainees have got employment.
• 38 trainees at the restaurants have earned about USD17 per month WP promotes using bank accounts and trainees save about 50% of their income.
• 10 CECs and 10 CYCs have been trained in trainees' selection, follow up and organising at the village.
• PWS, CEC and parents of trainees were encouraged to participate in workshop discussing on social welfare and labor laws.
• 28 instructors have been trained on developing skill training curriculum/session plans linked to small business plan and life skills.
• 222 trainees at DSC and communities have been supported to organise Trainee Associations to discuss about their lives, studies, peer Counseling and employment.

• Skills training provided toward entrepreneurship and assists young people to enter society and the job market successfully.
• Skill training at communities provides more opportunities for girls and is oriented toward groups of small business enterprises in the same village.
• Small business, life skills and credit are key factors to enable trainees to start a small business.
• Marketing is most important for the success of our program, it creates more jobs at the rural areas and improves the sales of the products produced.