Opening of Safadi Accelerated Vocational Training Center

The Tripoli-based Safadi Foundation announced on Tuesday the beginning of classes at the Safadi Accelerated Vocational Training Center set up as part of the Revival of the Old City’s Society and Economy (ROSE program). The initiative implemented with the support of the Regional Development and Protection Programme for Refugees and Host Communities in Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq (RDPP), aims to enhance the vocational skills of young people and facilitate their economic integration through employment generation in Tripoli and the North. A statement by the Safadi Foundation clarified that the center will provide beneficiaries (aged between 16-24 years) with free-of-charge training in some 13 disciplines on a duration of two months. Sessions already started in sanitary ware, painting and isolation, while other specializations will be gradually introduced during this month. The director of vocational training, Samer Fatfat, disclosed that at the end of the training courses, graduates from the Center will receive an experience certificate from the Safadi Foundation certified by the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the Tripoli and the North Bar Association. To note, the latter has few days ago signed a protocol of cooperation with the Foundation and several local and international organizations. Fatfat pointed out that beneficiaries will also get a complete professional toolkit and will assist them in finding jobs in the area in the framework of projects executed by the Safadi Foundation. (Al Diyar, November 22, 2017)

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