Report by Augustine Bill Kollie: augustinekollie87@gmail.com
ZWEDRU CITY: A professional female Auto-Mechanic, Josephine Glay has challenged young women and girls in Liberia to prioritize technical vocational education and training program as means of sustaining their livelihood.
Josephine is a heavy duty mechanic and employee of Welt Hunger Hilfe in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County.
She graduated from the Zwedru Multilateral High School in 2018 with both academic and Technical Training skills. Josephine Glay said, she experienced difficulties to complete her academic studies as well as the TVET program which is required of every student of the Zwedru Multilateral High school before graduation.
According to Josephine, several students, including other people told her earlier that being a mechanic is not good for women because, it’s a dirty job. Following her successful achievement as an Auto-mechanic, Josephine Glay is now training female interims of the Zwedru multilateral high school.
Some of my friends told me that mechanic job is not good for women because, it’s a dirty job. The boys that were in the Automotive class with me, always laughed when I’m not able to lift up the mechanic tools bar and other materials.
But, I ignored all of the mockery and discouragements and kept focus on the training, that’s why today, I am a professional Auto-mechanic” she said.
Josephine is now training female interims of Zwedru multilateral high school.
It can be recalled in September 2018, the European Union provided a total budget of nineteen million-five hundred thousand euro towards a five year YOUTH RISING program for young people in Liberia.
The project seeks to support youth employment by improving access to quality technical and vocational education for young women and men, promoting entrepreneurship and connecting education with the private sector.
The Youth Rising Project is being implemented by United Nations Industrial Development Organization, UNIDO in partnership with the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Youth and Sports.
The project activities are the Monrovia vocational training center, Booker Washington Institute in Margibi, Zwedru Multilateral high school, Greenville Multilateral High and Cape Palmas High School in Maryland county.
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