UNDP Sponsors Workshop On Batik, Tie & Die

Apam (C/R), Aug 14. - A two-week workshop to teach about 50 junior and senior secondary school leavers how to make batik, tie and dye, beads and cosmetics is underway at Apam. The aim of the workshop, sponsored by the capacity development unit of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Environmental and Sanitation Watch (ESW), an NGO, in collaboration with the Apam council of churches, is to make the participants self- employable. The participants will later be given loans to enable them to set up. An official of the UNDP, Mr Aspect Caiquo, who performed the opening ceremony, said his organisation has identified non-traditional export, tourism and the construction sectors for support. The UNDP is not only helping to build capacity in these sectors but will also assist those in the sectors to put their skills into practice and to contribute to national development, he said.