BRATISLAVA, January 23, (WEBNOVINY) — Slovakia provided help to St. Joseph Vocational Training Centre in Khartoum, Sudan, through the association Savio financed by Slovak official development aid. The project enabled the exchange of old machines at the car repair center by new ones. The car service station at the Vocational Training Centre in Khartoum exists for approximately fifty years. The workshop provides not only vocational courses. Also prison inmates are brought in for ten-month courses in basic car repairs. In addition to supply of new technologies that will enable the repair of cars and facilitate subsequent self-financing of the center, Slovak aid workers provided the necessary know-how. The subject of the course is very popular in northern Sudan. „As the whole world helps Sudan, there are a lot of cars,“ explained Maria Lackova of Savio to SITA news agency. Slovak Aid supported the project by 148,000 euro.
The outcome of the project will be specialized training using modern technical equipment and machinery needed for repair and maintenance of currently used cars. For the courses of go ahead, qualified teachers are necessary. Teaching to use the new machines and devices started by completing training of teachers for work with the machines and teaching their use. Since the students often come from the poorest layers of society, it was also necessary to provide the necessary school materials for them, alongside the purchase of machinery, teaching aids for teachers, and school supplies for students and their transport to the training center.
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