Vocational skills training

Approximately 280 typically illiterate and unemployed young men and women will be provided job training in auto mechanics, metal work and woodworking, industrial sewing, or in three skills not previously taught by Operation Friendship - cosmetology, air conditioning/refrigeration, and electrical installation/small appliance repair. To enable Operation Friendship to provide the latter three types of training, a new building will be constructed, equipment purchased, and instructors employed. In addition, some 450 women will be trained in service skills, e.g., child care, store cashiering, and all 730 youths will be trained in life skills, e.g., health, literacy, family life. A full-time placement and counselling advisor will be hired. Short-term advisors will help Operation Friendship develop the capacity to continue to train 150 youths annually, by providing assistance in fiscal management, organization development, communications, marketing, training methodology, etc., as deemed necessary.