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Polish Aid provides girls’ vocational schools in Dakar and Joal with prospects of self-development

23.10.2020

In Dakar and Joal, Franciscan Missionaries of Mary run vocational schools for girls. The series of vocational workshops is dedicated to women aged 17-26. Young girls are taught how to use sewing machines. They can practise their sewing skills.

A girl sewing

Since 2019, efforts have been made to improve teaching conditions. These activities are undertaken by the Good Factory Foundation under the project funded by Polish Aid.

 Renovation and construction works in vocational schools in Joalu and Dakar photo: Dobra Fabryka

To date, the school’s buildings have undergone redecoration, the sewing studio has been built from scratch as a wooden beam structure, and afterwards equipped with sewing machines. It is nice to learn and work in sewing rooms that have been freshened up and are properly equipped.

 

 Renovation and construction works in vocational schools in Joalu and Dakar photo: Dobra Fabryka

The schools have also received new furniture: chairs, wardrobes and proper tables. They have been equipped with computers with software and accessories. The sisters also saw to buying the French language teaching resources. 

 purchase of equipment for students of vocational schools in Joalu and Dakar photo: Dobra Fabryka

In Dakar, at the end of June 2020, a shop began to be built near the Foyer s. Maria Goretti’s girls’ vocational school. Structural works on the building’s construction have now been completed. Finishing works are underway. Soon, the shop will be ready for the young women to work at and sell the effects of their sewing skills.

On its turn, at the school in Joal, preparatory works are underway to build two open rooms for additional classrooms.

 Renovation and construction works in vocational schools in Joalu and Dakar photo: Dobra Fabryka

All savings that have been made are allocated to carry out additional modernization works necessary to improve the conditions at the schools.

The vocational trainings gather inhabitants of villages and poor boroughs of Dakar and Joal as well as daughters of economic migrants from Guinea-Bissau. Special training courses and the equipment modernization of the teaching centres increase the chances of socio-economic advance of women, local community, or migrant workers, and create opportunities for the economic development of the region.

Polish aid provides development opportunities for female students of vocational schools in Dakar and Joalu photo: Dobra Fabryka Foundation

Thus, the main objective of development assistance in Senegal is to improve the quality of education and to enhance vocational activity of women.

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