Maat for Peace, Development and human rights concluded a training course to develop new required skills for the labor market for families' of prisoners and detainees children, through vocational training and development of basic skills center.
This comes within the framework of implementing project activities for integrated protection for the families of prisoners and detainees, "the integration and rehabilitation", funded from the Swiss "DROSOS" foundation. The project seeks to improve economic, social and legal conditions for the families of prisoners and detainees in six areas affiliated to Cairo and Giza governorates.
The project seeks through the vocational training center and through the training program to train unqualified individuals or whose abilities and skills do not match the labor market needs of the targeted families of the project.
The project seeks through the vocational training center and the training program, which includes topics (Principles of Computer, Windows, Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel, and Internet) to train individuals who are not eligible, or whose qualifications don’t fit the labor market of the targeted households. Also it seeks the rehabilitation and the reintegration into society through the labor market. The training course has benefited (12) trainee of the group benefiting from the project targeted areas. Worth mentioning, that the vocational training center aims at developing basic skills for 200 of the families of the prisoners, at least during the period of implementation of the project; and in other services context benefiting more than 2,200 members of these families. It is expected that these courses will contribute directly in the success of the trainees in getting jobs commensurate the skills they have acquired. The employment center's project will contribute in finding jobs for who proved excellence in the training.
It is worth noting that the Vocational Training Center aims to develop basic skills for at least 200 families of prisoners during the project implementation period, in the context of other services that more than 2,200 family members benefit from.