South Sudan trainees gain skills for employment
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Twenty-five people in Rumbek, Lakes State, South Sudan, finished a three-month vocational training program focused on hairdressing, computer skills, and construction.
The Disabled Association for Rehabilitation and Development (DARD) organised the training with financial support from Oxfam. DARD’s Executive Director, Cipuounyuc Awur, encouraged the graduates to find jobs and build their own businesses with the skills they learned. The training centre aimed to give the participants hands-on experience and the tools needed to use their new abilities.
Officials from the Lakes State Ministry of General Education and Instruction and the Ministry of Labour, Public Service and Human Resource Development attended the graduation. They explained that vocational training is especially valuable in South Sudan, where formal employment is scarce. Charles Anau Cirillo Majok from the Ministry of General Education and Instruction noted that the country has a national policy to expand vocational training.
The state government plans to work with other departments, such as the Ministry of Trade, to help the graduates start businesses. Makuei Goljok, acting director general at the Ministry of Labour, encouraged the new graduates to seek work and reduce reliance on government jobs or aid.
