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Ramallah: UNESCO Ramallah, in close cooperation with the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research conducted a Training of Trainers (ToT) for technical vocational education and training (TVET) Master trainers in technical colleges in three governorates (North, South and Middle) for six days (46 training hours in total). This training aimed at equipping the master trainers with the necessary skills and expertise to ensure mainstreaming of the entrepreneurship education in TVET curricula and to enhance the skills of their students (youth) to facilitate their access to the world of work.
This initiative is part of UNESCO’s 3-Years Youth Employment in the Mediterranean Project (YEM), with funding from the European Union. The overall objective is to support national authorities, together with the private sector, the TVET providers and the youth organizations in the South Mediterranean region, in understanding and anticipating labour market changes with a view to infor
We felt like we were animals : asylum seekers describe life in UK barracks Jamie Grierson and Diane Taylor
Hasan Hamed almost didn’t make it to the UK. Trembling, he couldn’t bring himself to step into the boat in Calais, having paid £3,000 to make the crossing. The smuggler told him: “Either get in now or you lose your money.”
Hamed, 32, from Yemen, was dealing with multiple traumas by that point. He had been jailed and tortured by Houthi fighters in his home country after he refused their efforts to forcibly conscript him. “The Houthis imprisoned me naked for one week and deprived me of sleep,” he said, describing various tortures he was put through, including having to sleep under a blanket smeared with excrement and threatened with rape.