Monrovia – A hundred and forty-seven students have received certificates completing various levels of the Alfalit Skills Training program; which marked 4th closing and second graduation exercises for the 2016 and 2017 tailoring program. Live skills program is part of Alfalit International Program in Liberia aimed at empowering students of the literacy program upon acquiring basic reading and writing skills as a form of economic empowerment. About 40 students graduated completing the advance stage of the program while 107 have now move to advance stages of the skills program to continue their learning to adequately prepare them for the job market. “With my tailoring skills, I can now open my own tailoring shop and become my own boss and the money I will earn can feed my family and reduce my poverty” Sarah Barchue said joyously. Sarah started the Alfalit program in 2013, but says she with her graduation from the skills program she now has a plan of enrolling into a night school to further her education which will subsequently allow her graduate from high school.

Source: Front Page Africa December 12, 2017 03:00 UTC