BSS, Rajshahi :
Speakers at a training session have underscored the need for alternative income-generation training for the unemployed youths coming from poor and marginzalised faming families for their self-reliance.
They viewed despite of their strong will many of the youths in the drought-prone barind areas comprising Rajshahi and Chapainawabgonj districts couldn’t become money-makers due to lack of proper and time-fitting vocational training.
Time has come to arrange training course for the youths who are vulnerable to many social crimes like drug-addiction and smuggling. Many other government and non-government organizations concerned should come forward to this end, they added.
Agriculture Sustainable and Socio-Economic Development Organization (ASSEDO) organized the 20-day training on mobile phone servicing and electrical equipment for some youths at its Nachole office training room on Friday.
Promoting Food Security and Livelihoods of Marginalized People of Barind Tract (PFLMB) Project supported the training course with financial support from Oxfam-Novib.
Nachole Upazila Youth Development Officer Mijanur Rahman and ASSEDO Executive Director Agriculturist Rabiul Alam addressed the inaugural session as chief and special guests respectively with PFLMB Project Manager Mahbub Jaman Tapan in the chair.
Mobile Servicing Trainer Hasanuzzaman Dalim, Electrician Trainer Waliuzzaman Oli and PFLMB Project Technical Officer (Monitoring) Jakir Uddin Ahmed also spoke.
In phases, more than 50 interested youths both boys and girls age group between 16 and 24 coming from poor and most vulnerable target families will be brought under the training course on different vocations for their self-employment, the opening session mentioned.
