Founded: 2008
Project: Joinery courses & creation of a joiner’s workshop. Occupational integration of disadvantaged youth
Location: Khan-Younis Gaza Strip
The training aims to give the basic techniques in joinery, to open a joiner’s workshop and to hire a young adult. The program is planned in the following way: a theoretical part and a practical part on how to make furniture. Participants must be unemployed, have a physical handicap, live in the governorate of Khan-Yunis, be more than 16 years old and have a diploma of first degree. The training teaches participants how to find work within small firms producing wooden articles or any other product that requires the skills developed during this training. At the end of the training, a person will be hired, for a year, to create a joiner’s workshop in the MAMED center and complement the offer of existing services. Funding from the Jerusalem Fund went toward the purchase of a set of tools: hand tools (measuring & control instrumentation, surfacing & emery tools, sawing & cutting tools, trimming and chiseling tools, screwing tools, hammering & dislocating tools…) and carpentry electric devices (portable electric carpentry devices, fixed electric carpentry machines).
