Job Skills Training

Building Skills for a Sustainable Future

We offer women market-based skills training so they can find employment or start their own businesses. Our goals are to strengthen women’s existing skills and to introduce new skills in traditional and non-traditional fields so women can access future employment opportunities. Economic self-sufficiency is a critical step for women to take their rightful place in the lives of their families and communities.

In order to increase women’s access to income, Women for Women International provides market assessments of viable economic opportunities & trainings in vocational & business skills. These include public-private partnerships which help unite governments, civil society and the private sector to open economic opportunities for women.

One such opportunity that launched in the Fall of 2009 was HAND IN HAND - the partnership between kate spade new york and Women for Women International. This partnership allowed for us to created sustainable jobs where previously there were none for graduates of the program in Bosnia & Herzegovina.

Examples of skills training include:

• Silversmithing
• Horticulture
• Carpentry
• Beekeeping
• Electrical Repair
• Food Processing
• Beauty Parlor Training

Cultivating Local Talent Takes Many Forms:

• Producing durable market baskets in Rwanda
• Building greenhouses and teaching women how to plant, cultivate and sell flowers and vegetables in their local markets
• Commercial Integrated Farming Initiative in Rwanda, Sudan and soon Afghanistan
• Training and employing women in rural Afghanistan through a cooperative bakery
• Forming a cooperative in Nigeria to create batik materials
• Teaching embroidery and jewelry making in Afghanistan

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