Deputy
Foreign Minister of Germany, Mr. Stephan Steinlein led a political and business
delegation arriving from Germany to AMANTECH, Pakistan’s premier
vocational training institute. Mr. Ahmad Jalal, CEO, The Aman Foundation, and
Mr. Shams Badruddin, CEO of AMANTECH, welcomed the delegation. The
delegates were given a tour of the institute where students demonstrated their
newly learned skills at AMANTECH’s
state-of-the-art facility. The new Mechatronics workshop which has recently
been launched as a result of GIZ’s partnership with AMANTECH was particularly
of interest to the delegation.
The
Deputy Foreign Minister, Mr. Steinlein, expressed his appreciation for AMANTECH
in his address: “I am very impressed to see the facility and opportunity
being given to the underserved at AmanTECH.” Mr. Shams Badruddin, CEO, AMANTECH
commented: “AMANTECH is looking to scale the vocational
training initiative and building upon collaborative partnerships in order to
expand vocational training to cater to more fields and increase employment
opportunities for our students.”
Mr.
Ahmad Jalal, CEO of The Aman Foundation addressed the delegation by saying:
“The Aman Foundation and AMANTECH’s partnership with GIZ, through the
Cooperative Vocational Training (GPATI) program, is a great success, and is
helping empower underserved youth through exceptional hands-on skills training.
We look forward to continuing our cooperation and building upon this to expand
our partnership with Germany to continue to transform lives of underserved
communities.”
About
AMANTECH: AMANTECH is Pakistan’s premier vocational training
institute. Having successfully provided training to thousands of underserved
youth, from all over the nation in 12 different trades and with more than 16
partners on board, AMANTECH endeavors to build more partnerships to
expand its trade portfolio to include vocational training in other domains such
as the textile industry as well as female-centric trades such as stitching and
weaving. Since its inception, AMANTECH has successfully educated
Pakistan’s talented and driven youth through hands-on skills training and soft
skills training.
The
Aman Foundation aims to champion dignity and choice for the underserved,
focusing on health and education through direct interventions. Aman aspires to
deliver scalable, sustainable and systemic change in Pakistan. While our work
impacts thousands of lives each day, please join us to grow the impact through
your support and contributions, so that we can help transform millions more.
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