UN-Habitat, under its  Local Integration of Vulnerable Excluded & Uprooted People (LIVE-UP) programme, trained returnees and IDPs to acquire income-generating skills. A total of 112 males and 300 females of the most vulnerables were trained on skills like tailoring, carpentry, welding, literacy, and basic health care, in District 22 of Kabul City.

Chamane Khossain Khail, Districts 22 is located in the West of Kabul, and hosts approximately 800 IDP households; displaced within the past three years. Following moblisation under UN-Habitat’s ‘People’s Process’, targeted communities prioritised vocational training as one of their most pressing needs.

The acquired skilled are already helping the communities. Ghulab Nabi, a resident of District 22 said, “We are 12 at home. Now my daughter has learned how to sew clothes, and she can sew all our clothes at home. Before we gave our clothes to the tailor shop which was expensive, and we couldn’t afford it sometimes.”

In other similar case, Mr. Hayat and Mr. Shiraz have successfully graduated and obtained three months carpentry training and recently started working with one of the carpentry shop as Interns. They receive 200 Afghanis/day, through which they support their families and improve their skills. “It is my great wish to have my own carpentry shop.” Hayat, District 22 resident