Sponsored Vocational Training: Dream of Escape or Reality - Solwodi

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Efficacy of SOLWODI’s Vocational Training Scheme 19 IV. CASE STUDY A. Research Findings This work is informed by and grounded in evidence-based research. Henceforth, research findings are presented through socio-demographic characteristics providing an overall picture of the trainees as well as in-depth accounts depicting individual voices of SOLWODI’s clientele. 1. Database 1998-2009 On the whole 389 girls and women have been sponsored by SOLWODI since 1998. In the first years of SOLWODI’s existence, from 1985 until 1997, SOLWODI did not have a sponsored VT programme in place. The focus at this time was on consultation, women support groups, group loans and in some instances individual micro-credits. In the first two years, until mid 2000, the programme slowly but steadily started by sending 53 trainees (14 percent of 389 trainees in total) to institutions. SOLWODI managed in the subsequent years until 2005 to maintain roughly twenty trainees on average per year by taking another 104 women from 2000 until 2005 to VT. From 2005 onwards 232 (60 percent out of 389) young women, i.e. on average 77 trainees per year were financed. This threefold increase is largely attributed to an ILO project in 2005, which allowed 87 SOLWODI clients to start VT. a) Type of Vocational Training What is overly noticeable is how many Hairdresser trainees SOLWODI has been sponsoring in the last ten years: 167 young women, which is equivalent to 42 percent of all trainees, are now certified Hairdressers/ Cosmetologists. A further 31 women were sent to Hairdresser institutes, but dropped out. Thus, originally, if all Hairdresser trainees had completed their courses, it would have been a total share of 51 percent hairdresser graduates.
Efficacy of SOLWODI’s Vocational Training Scheme 20 Dressmaking follows suit in second place: 19 percent (76 women out of 389) finished their sponsored tailoring course. Since 1998 there have been trainees in Hairdressing, Dressmaking and Catering. Until 2005, 90 percent of SOLWODI’s trainees were sponsored in those three courses. Since 2006 SOLWODI expanded courses and additionally, offers Early Childhood/ Nursery Teaching, Front Office/ Hotel Management, Technical Training, Business Management, Social Work, Primary Teaching. Figure 2: Type of VT (Database Extract) Only a few women completed VT in Catering (fourteen trainees), Front Office/ Hotel Management (twelve trainees) and Early Childhood/ Nursery Teaching (eleven trainees). Technical certificates, such as Car Mechanic, Driver and Electrician, are held by ten young women. Merely two trainees each are currently enrolled in Business Management and Social Work course. Primary Teaching VT and Chemicals/ Cleaning were uncommon with only one trainee in 2006 in the former and one trainee in 2000 in the latter course. Regrettably, there is an information gap for 6 percent of SOLWODI’s trainees, for whom available data was limited, in particular about their type of VT. b) Educational level There is data on education level for only 39 percent (153 women) of all trainees. Education Information of 153 trainees Primary Education Std. 7 23 (15%) Primary Education Std. 8 (completed) 75 (49%) Secondary Education F1 to F4 55 (36%)
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