Graduation

Trainees in Tailoring, General Agriculture, and Catering & Hospitality have graduated from our Vocational Training project with Eliashib Restoration Organisation. 

The graduation ceremony marked more than the end of a training course — it marked the beginning of new opportunities to build livelihoods.

Our project has equipped women from female-headed households with practical, income-generating skills that create independence and open doors to employment and entrepreneurship.  Each graduate now carries a trade that can feed a family, start a business, and contribute to the local economy.

Graduates from the three programmes are now ready to apply what they have learned.  Tailoring students gained skills in garment construction, fashion design, and business management to start shops and meet clothing needs locally.  General Agriculture students were trained in modern farming techniques, crop production, and agribusiness to improve food security and build sustainable farms.   Catering & Hospitality students focused on customer service, catering, and hotel operations to prepare for careers in lodges, restaurants, and the growing service industry.

The graduates were also presented with start-up toolkits to support them in applying the skills acquired during the project and strengthening their income-generating activities. Some of the tools presented to Catering & Hospitality graduates included mixers, knives chopping boards, measuring cups and spoons, serving spoons, cooking pots and biscuit cutters, whilst General Agriculture trainees received hoes, garden spades, folks, sprayers, seeds, pesticides, sewing machines, water barrels, fertilizer applicators etc.  Pictured are Tailoring graduates receiving their own refurbished sewing machines and start-up haberdashery kits which were shipped from the UK.

The provision of the start-up toolkits will graduates in transitioning from training into practical business activities and enhance their ability to establish or strengthen their livelihoods.

Our graduates have already moved onto our follow-on project, Transition to Work, to receive 12 months of support and mentorship as they begin to build their own business enterprises or secure formal employment.