Vocational training for young Palestinian refugees.
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Vocational training scholarships and life skills will be offered to
31 Palestinian youth aged 14 to 20 thanks to a US $15,000 World Vision US private non-sponsorship funding.
Students will be selected among the applicants of the National Association for Vocational Training and Social Services (NAVTSS), a vocational training center partnering with World Vision Lebanon in Nahr El Bared Palestinian camp, North Lebanon.
Additionally, five vocational training graduates will obtain kits to use in their future business ventures.
This grant aims to increase the employability of the Palestinian youth residing in camps. Most of those youth live under the poverty line and suffer very had financial problems, and hence are not even able to afford the NAVTSS minimal registration fees.
'Scholarships and grants will have a great affect for these youth, so it will give them the chance to learn and to start their own business, since it is very difficult to find job under the difficult conditions that the Palestinians face in Lebanon and in parallel it will partly contribute to the annual budget of the NAVTSS organization and potentially other NGOs offering vocational training services,' said Marianne Bitar, World Vision Lebanon's manager of the Palestinian Refugee program.
Around 386,000 Palestinian refugees are living in camps across Lebanon. Considered foreigners, Palestinians have no political, social or civil rights. Legal restrictions make it almost impossible for them to work and thus to support themselves. They are excluded from the Lebanese social security scheme and educational system
World Vision has been involved with the Palestinian refugee communities living in refugee camps in Lebanon since 1997. World Vision Lebanon's work in the Palestinian camps has focused on public health and education services, as well as strengthening networks between those local and international organizations working in the camps. In the newly developed Palestinian Refugee Program Strategic Plan, World Vision's work in the Palestinian refugee Camps will focus on the broad sector of education which includes Vocational training programs.
'With the aim of increasing the ability of young people especially young people with special needs and women to contribute to household income, World Vision will assist local organizations to establish and conduct vocational training programs,' Bitar said.
'This assistance will include technical advice on particular trades and small business development training, as well as in some cases, the provision of business start-up kits with career counseling support,' Bitar continued.
Nahr El Bared is one of the four Palestinian camps World Vision Lebanon currently work with, the other three being: Debayeh (Mount Lebanon), Burj El Barajneh (Beirut) and Buss (south Lebanon).
Students will be selected among the applicants of the National Association for Vocational Training and Social Services (NAVTSS), a vocational training center partnering with World Vision Lebanon in Nahr El Bared Palestinian camp, North Lebanon.
Additionally, five vocational training graduates will obtain kits to use in their future business ventures.
This grant aims to increase the employability of the Palestinian youth residing in camps. Most of those youth live under the poverty line and suffer very had financial problems, and hence are not even able to afford the NAVTSS minimal registration fees.
'Scholarships and grants will have a great affect for these youth, so it will give them the chance to learn and to start their own business, since it is very difficult to find job under the difficult conditions that the Palestinians face in Lebanon and in parallel it will partly contribute to the annual budget of the NAVTSS organization and potentially other NGOs offering vocational training services,' said Marianne Bitar, World Vision Lebanon's manager of the Palestinian Refugee program.
Around 386,000 Palestinian refugees are living in camps across Lebanon. Considered foreigners, Palestinians have no political, social or civil rights. Legal restrictions make it almost impossible for them to work and thus to support themselves. They are excluded from the Lebanese social security scheme and educational system
World Vision has been involved with the Palestinian refugee communities living in refugee camps in Lebanon since 1997. World Vision Lebanon's work in the Palestinian camps has focused on public health and education services, as well as strengthening networks between those local and international organizations working in the camps. In the newly developed Palestinian Refugee Program Strategic Plan, World Vision's work in the Palestinian refugee Camps will focus on the broad sector of education which includes Vocational training programs.
'With the aim of increasing the ability of young people especially young people with special needs and women to contribute to household income, World Vision will assist local organizations to establish and conduct vocational training programs,' Bitar said.
'This assistance will include technical advice on particular trades and small business development training, as well as in some cases, the provision of business start-up kits with career counseling support,' Bitar continued.
Nahr El Bared is one of the four Palestinian camps World Vision Lebanon currently work with, the other three being: Debayeh (Mount Lebanon), Burj El Barajneh (Beirut) and Buss (south Lebanon).
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