APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM

BACKGROUND

Caritas Pakistan Lahore is working with the poorest of the poor for their sustainable development. It is observed that in the Archdiocese of Lahore majority of the people are uneducated and economically weak. When the problems were analyzed, facts came out that the cause of their poverty was unskillfulness, which resulted in unemployment. Therefore, Caritas Pakistan Lahore started Apprenticeship Program to tackle the problem. Through this program Caritas Pakistan Lahore make people skilled in different technical fields. Thus they are enabled to earn their daily needs and gradually they might be able to restore their dignity in the society.

GOAL

• Restoration of the dignity of the individuals and community
  

OBJECTIVES

• To arrange skill training for school drop outs and uneducated youth
• To improve socio-economic status of unskilled individuals through making them skilled
• To promote resource sharing spirit among the apprentices
  

STRATEGY

• Formal meetings with apprentices
• Seminars are held with potential apprentices for their career guidance
• Contact with other NGOs, GOs and training institutions
• Recruitment and selection
• Contact with instructor and students
• Apprentices admissions in different training centers
• Follow up visits to the apprentices in the centers
• Follow up visit to the individuals after two months
• Animators visiting their respective areas apprentices every week
• Get together of students and families
  

METHODOLOGY

• Area animators provide the list of the deserving candidates to Diocesan office
• A form is filled by the candidate which collects all the required information
• Before the selection of the candidate aptitude test is held
• The training emerges through the animation process
  

IMPACTS

• Unskilled will be trained
• Unemployment will be decreased
• Socio-economic status will be boosted up
• Dignity of the poorest of the poor will be restored