Australia Funds Computer Skills Training and Job Placement Program for the Underprivileged Children
The Australian High Commissioner and the beneficiaries of the SUF computer skills training program
“The underprivileged working children in Bangladesh deserve the same rights, opportunities and positive future that we wish for our own children”, the Australian High Commissioner Douglas Foskett said while inaugurating a project titled “Expansion of SUF Vocational Training and Job Placement Program for Working Children” at Moghbazar. The project will provide vocational training in operating computers and job placement in a related field for children who have completed grade eight at the Society for Underprivileged Families (SUF) education centre. Upon completion of the course those children would be supported in securing non-hazardous, skilled employment. Mr Foskett said “I am particularly happy that the project will provide a more promising future for young people who have not had opportunities or have been forced by circumstances into dangerous and inappropriate work. By receiving computer skills training, they will increase their chances of obtaining better paid, safe and long term jobs.”
The project, which has been funded by the Australian High Commission’s Direct Aid Program, will be implemented by the Society for Underprivileged Families (SUF).
22 April 2007
For further information please contact:
Nawrin Samrina, Senior Political & Economic Research Officer
Australian High Commission.
Tel: 8813105, E-mail: [email protected]