“Alusama Froi” is a vocational training project for youth and young mothers from discriminated ethnic minorities in Bangladesh. In the current project phase, the aim is to develop the vocational school into a social business and thereby ensure its independent continuity.
CO:OPERAID, our contact in Switzerland, works together with the local organization Humanitarian Foundation. It has carefully and innovatively built and successfully operated the vocational school in Thanchi since 2012. The school enjoys a very good reputation in the region and enrollment in the vocational courses continues to rise. The success of the graduates is also encouraging. In 2012-2020, over 50% of them became self-employed or found employment. This enables them to improve their living conditions in the long term and through their own efforts. But it is not only at the individual level that the project is having a sustainable impact: as an SME, the school itself has also been able to steadily increase its income over the past few years, for example through the production and sale of furniture and tissues.