Livelihood skills certificate ceremony

Over 200 youth who successfully completed a livelihood skill training in the Galle District will receive their certificates.

These youth who participated in the Livelihood Skill Development Programme conducted by Aide et Action International, successfully completed their programme and will receive their certificates at a ceremony to be held in Ambalangoda today.

Ambassador to France in Sri Lanka Christine Robichon and MP and Advisor to the President Rajiva Wijesinha will be the chief guest and guest of honour.

This is the passing out of 11th and 12th batches of the iLEAD Centre (Initiative for Livelihood Education and Development) operating in Hikkaduwa. Most of these youth were school dropouts and coming from the marginalized sections of the society.

They received skill training on trades such as information technology, graphic designing, customer care relations and German language.

These trades were decided by an employability study conducted in the area and 80% of these trainees are already placed on jobs in surrounding establishments.

Aide et Action International is an international development organisation working across 26 countries in five continents.

Established in France in 1981 and fully internationalised in 2011, Aide et Action International works for a world where dignity is ensured for all men, women and children through education - the lever for development and change. In South Asia, the organization is working in Sri Lanka, India and Nepal.