Action Card - November 2007
Vocational Training
transforms life
Learning opportunities for women offered by
education and training in developing countries show an ongoing imbalance
in educational participation and equal access to existing educational
services. This confirms and perpetuates gender stereotypes, actually
educating women for subordinate roles in society. The potential of
non-formal education to challenge male-biased systems and training for
challenging gender-based inequality is one solution.
The Church of Bangladesh,
although very small in membership, numbering only 16,000 in a population
of around 140 million, provides through its Social Development
Department a huge social outreach to people of all faiths, in the fields
of education, healthcare and training.
One such project run by the
Church’s Christ Church Trade School (CCTS) is the Mobile Vocational
Training programme. This provides opportunity for young people both male
and female in rural Bangladesh to gain skills in one particular trade
such as carpentry, metal work, electrics and motor mechanics, to a
standard where they can find employment on completion of the course. The
course is taught not at the main college site but right in the heart of
the community where the young people are, thus saving on expensive
travel and living costs.
One student said “This
opportunity has transformed my life; I now will be able to gain full
time employment and help to support my family. My dream is one day to
have my own business.”
Please send a message of
encouragement to the staff and students at CCTS through
Rt Rev Michael S Baroi
Postage 54p + air mail
sticker
Bishop of Dhaka Diocese &
Moderator
of the Church of Bangladesh
St Thomas Church
54 Johnson Road
Dhaka
1100
Bangladesh
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