Foreign grant: NGO partners with Japanese on vocational training
Graduates of vocational training centre will be able to find proper technical jobs.
KARACHI:
The Consulate General of Japan, Karachi, has extended a grant worth $101,007 (Rs8.6 million) to an NGO, Starfish Karachi, to help it construct the Starfish Vocational Training Centre at SITE town.
Consul General Masaharu Sato and Starfish Karachi chairman Anser Javed completed the formalities at the Japan Culture Center on Monday.
The proposed vocational centre will provide training courses in seven different areas and is expected to train 210 people every year. Sato said that after completing these courses, graduates will be able to find proper technical jobs, which will in turn improve their livelihoods.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 21st, 2012.
The Consulate General of Japan, Karachi, has extended a grant worth $101,007 (Rs8.6 million) to an NGO, Starfish Karachi, to help it construct the Starfish Vocational Training Centre at SITE town.
Consul General Masaharu Sato and Starfish Karachi chairman Anser Javed completed the formalities at the Japan Culture Center on Monday.
The proposed vocational centre will provide training courses in seven different areas and is expected to train 210 people every year. Sato said that after completing these courses, graduates will be able to find proper technical jobs, which will in turn improve their livelihoods.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 21st, 2012.