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The recognition of the Maintenance vocational training in Lebanon is a great step towards the young people integration.

A video to help you understand what the IECD team is doing in Syria: involved in Syria since 2008, the IECD is ramping up its activities targeting young people.

Affiah leaves in the working-class neighbourhood of Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo)…

had the honour of receiving the ”Most Innovative in Education in Nigeria” prize from the West African newspaper “Business Day” for its innovative work in education in Nigeria with its “Seeds of Hope” program.

The latest Seeds of Hope newsletter ligths on the recent activities of the project in Lebanon: launch of a new social business, organization of a 5th Job and Orientation Forum…

At the end of the Solar Energy program set up by the AFD, the IECD and the Schneider Electric Group to benefit those students who are in their third year of professional training in electrical engineering, a ceremony was held to award certificates certificates on the 7 March 2017 at the Don Bosco institute of Cairo.

Affiah lives in a popular part of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She suffers from sickle-cell disease, a genetic illness which affects 2% of children.

In October of 2016, the training program BRIDGES, supported both by the IECD and UNICEF in Syria, was launched to help young Syrians acquire the necessary skills to create their own business concerns.

In a country where young people from the age of 15 to 34 makes up over a third of the population, and that third is three times more likely to be in the grip of unemployment, the creation of businesses seems to be one of the only solutions available.

Checking up on how young people are getting along after their training is an important issue for many organisations but it also presents a major challenge, largely on account of the scarcity of adapted tools.