ADAPT

For those who have dropped out of school and are of legal working age in Vietnam, ADAPT has a vocational training program to help provide more economic opportunities locally.
The vocational training component of ADAPT has the following characteristics:

1. Training focuses on the local employment market and significantly expanding the capacity of the young women including basic computer data entry, sales, child care, industrial sewing, etc.

2. Employment opportunities with higher wage earning and small business potential.

3. Job placement services and follow-up to ensure stable and safe employment.

4. Periodic visits and support for the trainees and their families.

Vocational Training: © 2007 diLuNa

ADAPT is seeking to provide vocational training and job placement for 400 girls. We strive to train the girls in professions that allow them to easily find long-term stable employment. This is a very difficult and at times frustrating task, but the ADAPT staff works hard to find and make connections with any possible networks that might result in jobs for these girls.

Our target population is young girls who have dropped out of school. With low educational attainment they often have trouble finding decent, stable jobs, forcing them to follow in their parents’ footsteps as seasonal laborers, thus repeating the cycle of poverty. They also have the option of going to the cities to find work, but with few connections and many factory jobs requiring a minimum education level, these girls usually end up returning home empty-handed or sometimes disappearing in the unknown, possibly falling victim to Vietnam’s growing domestic rural-urban trafficking problem.