|
The Training Centre
is progressing well. At the moment there
are 134 students following various courses.
Some of the workshops are now producing
goods to sell or services to offer to
the general public. For example:
The dressmaking workshop
has made all the uniforms for other
workshops and has also made other clothing,
such as sports shirts for sale. In the
cookery and bakery workshops the students
are learning to make buffets and are
serving these at various public functions.For
practice the hairdressing students provide
free services such as haircutting, styling
and tinting.
Besides the workshops
another development this year has been
that the Medical Centre is now fully
functional. Using two rooms in the Training
Centre building a surgery has been set
up for general medicine and dentistry.
Families from the Trust
can use these facilities for free (a
small amount is taken out of their sponsorship
money to pay for medicines and treatment).
Anyone else can use the Centre but pay
a larger fee to help to cover the expenses
of the doctors, dentist and nurse who
ask for very little remuneration.
All the families who
enter the Trust are screened for malnutrition
and parasites and treated. The Trust
also now holds a monthly Medical Campaign,
which besides the dentistry and general
medicine includes such things as gynaecology.
All this is helping
to improve the health of the parents
as well as the children and we thank
God for the generosity of the medical
staff who give of their time and expertise
so willingly.
|
Training Centre Update May 2008
