Vocational training courses offered to Somalian children and teenagers

Source: Xinhua| 2017-05-31 16:59:26|Editor: Zhou Xin
SOMALIA-MOGADISHU-FORMER CHILD SOLDIERS-VOCATIONAL TRAINING

Trainees learn the mobile phone repairing at the training centre ELMAN, a non-government organization (NGO) which cooperates with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), in Mogadishu, Somalia, March 22, 2017. By the year of 2017, more than 1630 children and teenagers have taken vocational training courses such as automobile maintenance, basic electricity knowledge and circuit maintenance skills, mobile phone repairing and computer using. A vast majority of the students here were former child soldiers or affected by armed groups. The knowledge and skills they learned here will help them to start a new life once they are reintegrated into their communities. (Xinhua/Sun Ruibo)

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