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ORIENTATION- GAIBANDHA
Pre-job orientation held in Gaibandha
GAIBANDHA, Nov 12, 2020 (BSS)- A two-day long pre-job orientation was held at the hall room of Fulchhari Model Primary School in the district today amid much enthusiasm .
Strengthening Women’s Ability for Productive New Opportunities (SWAPNO) project organized the training with the financial support of marico, Sweden and UNDP.
The objective of the training was to brief the participants about the job and job related rules and job environment and other discipline so that they could serve at the respective firm properly.
Office sources said, a memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed between the officials of the SWAPNO project and the officials of COEL (Center of Excellence for Leather Skill Bangladesh Limited).
As per the MOU, the officials of COEL would conduct the training sessions for the female beneficiaries of the project.
After completing the need base training successfully, the trainees would be provided with jobs at the apex footwear limited with reasonable salary.
As the objective of the SWAPNO project is to involve
the project beneficiaries in income generating activities, the officials of the project had taken up initiative to provide jobs to the project beneficiaries after imparting them training on the work of the firm.
As the project beneficiaries have no idea about job, they are being imparted training on job and job related rules for the first time then they would be trained up and skilled on different vocational trades under Bangladesh Technical Board, Dhaka.
As per the project profile, the pre job orientation was held on Wednesday at a school of the upazila.
Chairman of Gazaria union parishad (UP) Md. Shamsul Alam formally inaugurated the orientation as the chief guest.
District Manager of SWAPNO project Md. Zahidul Haque, Project Coordinator Md. Dulal Karim and representative of COEL Md. Imran also spoke at the inaugural ceremony of the orientation, among others.
The speakers
urged the trainees to be more serious and punctual to acquire the knowledge from the training and apply it in their jobs to run their services properly.
G F Rabbani, Enterprise Development and Employment Specialist of UNDP said, pre-job workshop was organized to rebuild their confidence and feel them empowered as they can get decision about the employment in formal sector.
UP chariman Md. Shamsul Haque said training makes a man perfect and well equipped to do the service smoothly so he asked the trainees to complete it and other trainings successfully for being self-dependent economically and help build happy and prosperous country.
A day long training on the subject also began at Sashata upazila this morning through the active participation of 40 project beneficiaries, sources said.
A total of 80 female beneficiaries of the project from the two upazilas took part in the orientation, sources added.
District Manager of the project Zahidul Haque told BSS that Fulchhari and Shaghata upazilas of the district have been brought under the project being implemented by local government bodies in partnership with a local NGO Gana Unnayan Kendra.
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