Project duration: Three years (2016 – 2019)

Key Developmental Issues:

E-Learning, Traditional Carpentry, Sustaining Intangible Heritage, Economic Development, Entrepreneurial Skills Development, Career Development, Youth Empowerment, Gender Equality.

Project Goal:

Facilitating job opportunities for youth, providing new career options for 222 youth of both genders. This will be applied by teaching them new skills and transferring knowledge through e-learning in the fields of: general carpentry, doors and windows carpentry, mashrabiya carpentry, and entrepreneurial skills.

Project objectives:

• Empowering Mezalla Foundation to become an e-Learning Center to maximize its social and economic empowerment impact by applying e-learning concepts and techniques. This will expand its outreach to target groups supporting their career development and accessing new job opportunities.
• Implementing the learning-by-doing methodology, offering several courses in various branches of carpentry and entrepreneurship skills.
• Providing online vocational training and face-to-face practical exercises in the training center.
• Conducting trainee-to-trainer practical workshops in the carpentry workshop of Mezalla Foundation.
• Introducing facilitation techniques and capacity building in the training of trainers’ courses by the beginning of the project (initial stage).
• Organizing introductory, an intermediate and a final workshops for those who cannot have access to neither internet nor computers.
• Producing videos for 42 lessons of 186 minutes total in: general carpentry, doors and windows carpentry, and mashrabiya carpentry.
• Producing videos for 14 lessons 58 minutes total in entrepreneurial skills.