MECC Implements Vocational Trainings in Dara’a

MECC continues to implement vocational trainings for those willing to enter the labor market. Extensive trainings were implemented for a month and a half in Izraa and Sheikh Meskin in Dara’a Governorate.

120 persons participated in the trainings including 23 persons with disabilities. The training specializations included hairdressing for men and women, sewing, electrical wiring and household lighting.

MECC monitored the program implementation and at the end of each course, every trainee received a kit including all the necessary tools to start working.

The most committed and qualified students benefited from paid internships at workshops and barbershops according to their specialization.

MECC also implemented psycho-social support for trainees, which introduced them to effective communication skills, needs and emotions, positive thinking, dealing with hardships, goal setting and planning.

One of the participants in the women hairdressing course said, “I was not able to join a private training course since we had already spent all our savings because of displacement. Though I was working in a women hairdressing salon, my employers were not willing to teach me needed professional skills. I learned that MECC was implementing free trainings; I rushed to participate. The Training was very beneficial, I learned all the information that I needed and then I joined the “on the job training” in a professional barbershop. The owners of this barbershop have noticed my good work and there is a possibility that I will continue working with them.”