News from “The Training Centre” - Workshop on tailoring and hairdressing

As concerns our project, "The Training Centre", we are really achieving our objectives. So far we have fourteen (14) children in the tailoring workshop and four (04) children in the hairdressing workshop.

Fron the 17-19 of December 2009, I, the President and the Vilage Project Facilitator, conducted and evaluation of training in the centre. Our findings were as follows:
- All eighteen (18) trainees and two (02) trainers are active, serious and duty conscious;
- Over 90% of trainees can confortably work with little or no supervision;
- Most of the beneficiaries prefer tailoring to haidressing increasing our need for sewing machines and other tailoring accessories;
- The little money we make from the workshop is not enough to sustain the running cost like paying the trainers every month, paying electricity bills, rents etc. Thus we still need some financial assistance.

We are anxiously waiting for support in computers so that we can start the computer department of the training centre any time from now. The village population will be happy to have training in computer awareness and associated services.

In addition to our various projects, we gather orphans every Christmas season donate gifts to them in the form of food, soap, clothing and school material. We have been organising such occasions since Dec. 2006. In our next communication, we will send to you pictures of the last event which took place on the 22 of Dec. 2009.

Happy New Year

Kuma Paul Teh
Cameroon
Project Coordinator, ASDRP.

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