ALIGNMENT
This is a 2-day workshop designed to align our organization’s vision with those of our most critical stakeholders, our graduates. It is an integral first step in a participant’s commitment to transforming their life.
Working Assets
Made In Liberia’s Working Assets course is the second course in our Right-to-Work Program. This is because creating personal wealth for our participants is one of our most immediate goals. The course is designed to cause breakthrough results in personal finance by teaching basic money management as well as an extraordinary approach to building new family assets. Upon completing the course, attendees will be enrolled in the Working Assets Program in which they will start Individual Development Accounts at a local bank. Savings retained in their Individual Development Accounts for one year are matched, dollar-for- dollar, by Made In Liberia.
Basic Apparel Production
This is the third course in the program, designed to introduce participants to the operation of commercial sewing machines including stitching, machine maintenance and finishing. It is a 20 day, 8 hour a day course.
Advanced Apparel Production
This fourth course focuses on teaching advanced stitching, quality analysis, and other skills in the context of 20 intensive 8-hour workdays.
Management and Leadership
This is a fifth and optional 2-month course designed for trainees committed to leading a team within one of our partner enterprises. Technical aspects of business management are introduced in this course as well as effective strategies in the fields of communication and leadership for achieving extraordinary results. After completing this course graduates are assigned to some aspect of managing operations within a partner company.
Strategy and Entrepreneurship
A final and optional 4-month course available to trainees who are committed to leading their own business upon completing their service with one of our partner enterprises. Graduates of this course will gain the technical know-how, coaching, and funding necessary to start a new venture within Liberia. Through this course attendees will develop a business plan, coordinate stakeholders, and launch their new business within one year of their graduation. Entrepreneurs also commit a portion of their profits to community development projects and funding other MIL trainees.
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