Vocational Training and Employment Generation Project

In Bangladesh climate change has considerably increased the occurrence of droughts and natural disasters, and is causing seasonal irregularities. As a result of this agriculture is likely to no longer be a dependable source of people’s livelihood. The country has already seen the fastest wave of urbanization in the past decade than every before. Therefore, it has been highly important to help people in agrarian societies  find alternatives, new sources of income by giving them the resources and training without dislocating them from the areas with which they are familiar.
Our vocational training project focuses on increasing livelihood skills of adolescents, men and women. In selected chars, based on situation and needs assessments, adolescent boys and girls are being treated on different areas which will enable them to create livelihood sources for themselves. Friendship’s on-going vocational training programmes in the char areas are on boat-building, tailoring, printing, training para-vets, mechanics, community medics, traditional birth attendants and most recently quality training on weaving, dyeing and printing fabrics. After completion of training the group can either start production inside the training centre or work independently within their homes if preferred. All trainees are given logistics, production and product marketing assistance from Friendship.