Switzerland extends support to Laos for its vocational training project

Lao and Swiss officials attend a meeting to close Phase 1 and introduce Phase 2 of the Vocational Training and Employment Support Services scheme. - Vientiane Times/ANN

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN): Some 3,548 young Lao people have benefited from Phase 1 of the Vocational Training and Employment Support Services project supported by the government of Switzerland.

This has involved four years of vocational training and employment support, short course training, employment support for 1,263 people, and basic business training for 311 people, of whom 210 also received seed money for business start-up and coaching.