Our vocational training programme was formed to help our young widows who have lost their husbands to aids and school drop outs to help them with a skill to earn a honest living and pull them out of prostitution.  

 

Since 1997 it has helped many hundreds of women who have gone through our course,  that goes for one year and they sit for Government Trade Test Grade 3. Those who pass are treated as skilled labourers in the textile industries down town, or they start their own cottage industries and become self-employed. VPM's target is to pull all our sisters, daughters and mothers in Korogocho out of prostitution, and empower them for honest living and make a better family fibre for a better nation.  

 

This year, tailoring and dressmaking has 11 women students and two men, who come in shifts to learn embroidery, tailoring, dressmaking and knitting. Their instructor is Mrs Lydia Awino, who has shaped the lives of many through this work. 

 

Thanks: WorkAid have recently donated 12 manual, 12 electrical zig-zag, 2 treadle sewing and 1 knitting machines and 1 bag of knitting wool to VPM. Most of these are for use in the VPM Women’s Vocational Training Scheme. These machines will help us to continue training women and help them to get an income.