280 women complete vocational training in Faryab

MAIMANA (Pajhwok): Two hundreds and eighty women and 40 men have completed skills and training course in northwestern Faryab province, an official said on Wednesday.

The training was orgnaised by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) to stop family migration, strengthen women and men.

Qari Naqibullah Hanif, head of the Commerce and Industry Department, said 280 women and 40 men have received their certificates after completing necessary skills and trainings.

He said individuals who got training and learned skills were the returnees.

He said: “In the first stage, when 100 women learned sewing, embroidery, beadwork, embroidering, and cake making in a six-month training course, they were given a certificate of graduation, but in the second stage, when 180 women and 40 men in 63 workshops, the course They had spent four months of vocational training, each of them was given $300 worth of work tools and goods to work and earn money by creating independent workshops.”

He added that men's professions were different, they learned mobile, carpentry, car repair and tailoring during the four-month training period.

Trainees who were trained in 63 workshops by 63 trainers were paid 7,500 afs per month as rent and travel expenses, and 6,000 to 24,000 afs were paid for each trainer who had one to four students.

Edress Sediqi, an employee of the IOM in Faryab, said participants for the vocational training courses were selected from among the returnees to learn the desired profession and meet their needs by earning income..

Anahita Wahedi, one of the graduates, said that she was very interested in tailoring, but the conditions were not favorable and she did not have facilities, but now she learned her favorite profession in four months.

She said that he wants to create an independent workshop in the future and, in addition to sewing and selling his products, teach girls who are sitting at home.

One of the instructors, Zeib al-Nasa, says that she had four students, they learned more than 50% of sewing skills in four months, and now they can sew clothes for themselves and their families.

nh