Congratulations! With joy on their faces, 130 graduates celebrated the completion of their house economics training. The certificates are a ticket to a humane life for them and their children.
Bizuye Teshome is one of the 130 particularly poor women who were now able to celebrate the completion of their training. After six months of teaching theory and practice, the women received their certificates as housekeepers. Bizuye initially wants to bake cookies and cakes at home and sell them in the neighborhood of her poor neighborhood. Your goal is to have your own restaurant.
After a difficult time, the 30-year-old regained courage. During the corona pandemic, her husband lost his job in a cola factory. One day he disappeared and never came back. Bizuye looked for him, but he remained untraceable. Bizuye sold her few kitchen appliances to be able to care for her baby boy, Makbel. “The future had no prospects,” she remembers.
The training by Menschen für Menschen is aimed at particularly poor women like Bizuye, who would fall even deeper into need without this support. During lessons, her son visited the daycare center that is part of the training project.
Already in June, 143 women completed their home economics training. Now 130 women received their certificates, which are a ticket to the job market. Half of the June graduates are already working in permanent jobs, in hotel service, in restaurant kitchens or as carers in crèches and kindergartens.
Some of the women, like Bizuye, prefer to start their own small catering business because of their children, which they can run from home. But everyone leaves the teaching kitchen with great self-confidence. “The training will open the door to my dream of owning my own small restaurant,” says Bizuye.
