Donor: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Project goal: Vocational capacity building of asylum-seeker youth populated in Azerbaijan through apprenticeship method, and providing asylum-seekers with non-food humanitarian relief items.
25 asylum-seeker youth have been involved in 6-month on-the-job training on 10 trades in 10 workshops and are learning the trades like dress-maker, barber, hair-dresser, culinary, cosmetologist, plastic door & window making, video-operator, auto metal craftsman, mobile phone and refrigerator repair.
Computer courses
6 refugee and asylum-seekers received 2-month computer training. Upon completion of trainings, they were awarded with certificates.
Currently, 5 youth attend computer courses. Courses will continue till the end of year, and 18-20 youth will learn the computer programs of MS Windows, MS Word and MS Excel.
Youth involved in apprenticeship courses and computer training are citizens of Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Chechnya.
