Business Skills Development

500 students have completed the Business Skills workshops since April 2007, gaining essential skills and support to enter the job market or start and develop their own businesses.

The primary objectives of our Business Skills development programme is to:

• Help individuals start their own business
• Support the growth of existing businesses
• Develop skills of villagers so that they can compete in local, national and international job markets

young people share ideas during a Generate Your Business workshop

Courses include:

• Start your business- provided by the International Labour Organisation and the Rural Development Training Research Institute
• Generate your business – aimed at 16-22 yr olds, provided by the International Labour Organisation and the Rural Development Training Research Institute
• Improve your business- provided by the International Labour Organisation and the Rural Development Training Research Institute
• Professional Photography – a three month diploma course, that has so far trained 60 students in photography and picture editing skills.
• Mushroom Cultivation- a one day workshop to develop new agriculture opportunities. 60 students have been trained in this course, which ran from April  2008 to March 2009.
• Electrical Wiring- a six month diploma to provide access to foreign job opportunities.

Graduations: Photography
Diving and Computer Programming
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Stepping in to the New Year
with new skills and new dreams:
FoG Graduations
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Small Donations to Big Changes in Women’s Lives
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Diving, Electrician, English, Photography, Computer Graduation
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Graduations of the Women's Enterprise, Kids' Computer, Diving & Photography take the Limelight at the Foundation of Goodness
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Graduation Unfolds for English, Diving & Photography Students

Electrician Students Walk Away With Important Life Lessons at the 14th Electrician Graduation

Goodness volunteer’s experience

Small Donations to Big Changes in Women’s Lives

COMPUTER LITERACY THE WAY FORWARD

English Students Put to the Test in Seenigama

Traditional Crafts Bring Children Together

Small Donations to Big Changes in Women’s Lives

Evaluation Presentation (IYF/Nokia) 2007-2009 

Youth Entrepreneurship Workshop: Lessons for Post-Tsunami Reconstruction

Foundation of Goodness Graduates Encouraged to Achieve their Dreams

CAREER TRAINING AT FoG

A FoG INITIATED BUSINESS ENTERPRISE PROSPERS

BUSINESS SKILLS & ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
IN SEENIGAMA

IYF visits youth training program at Foundation
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