Sewing Vocational Training in South Lebanon

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The Middle East Council of Churches peruses its support to women who are facing many daily burdens and pressures due to the difficult living conditions in Lebanon through various vocational training sessions. Thus, the Service and Relief Department – Diakonia, Beirut office, implemented a sewing training program, at the Hebbaryeh municipality in South Lebanon.

The participants included a group of Lebanese women living in the host communities, alongside with Syrian refugees. The training consisted on how to sew and mend clothes in the correct and proper ways, using the sewing machines at the municipality, which created a new initiative of partnership.

The program aims at empowering women, improving their self-resilience and developing their capabilities for eventual sustainability. Therefore, MECC provided sewing machines in order to enable them work in their homes, mending clothes to relatives and neighbors of their community, as a start.

Noting that this program was implemented with the support of the international humanitarian organization Embrace the Middle East - EME.