Achieved projects | Vocational training projects

1985 - 2005 : From supporting the refugees to rebuilding Afghanistan.

 

The Vocational Training project was established in May 1985 in order to insert young male and female Afghans into income-generating activities and to encourage self-reliance and entry to the labour market through the learning of different skills. The project was launched in Peshawar with the support of the European Commission. This later also financially supported the construction of an integrated training centrer that hosted for more than 10 yeas various NGOs working in the field of training (Handicap Internationa, Sandy Gall, Aide Médicale Internationale, MRCA).

In 1992 with the huge repatriation of refugees from Pakistan, SAB started to move its activities in Afghanistan, in the Eastern Region of the countries, continuing to offer vocational training and employment opportunities to Afghan returning to their homeland. In the 1990's SAB had a partnership with the United Nationals Drug Control Program to focus on youths to deter them from working with poppy cultivation.

In 2002, following the fall of the Taliban regime, SAB closed its office in Pakistan to concentrate all its ressources to the reconstruction of Afghanistan.

In 2004 SAB decided to work towards the rural development and was an actor of the European Union Rural development program of the Central Region from 2004 to 2007, in the following provinces : Kabul, Parwan, Logar, Kapisa, Wardak, Bamyan. The vocational training program was established in these 6 provinces, with a sub-office in each province, to provide training and job opportunities to rural men and women. This project succeeded in training 890 men ; three months after the end of the training 63% found a job as employee, 25% started their own workshop, 6% were jobless and 6% left the area. 732 women were trained, 92% worked at home after the training, 4% worked as employee, 2% were not working and 2% left the area.