VO Disabled women take vocational training to boost opportunities to make a living.
INTRO: Disabled women from the Lao Disabled Women’s Development Centre in Vientiane have undertaken some additional vocational training to encourage them to engage in income generating activities.
STORY: The training course and cook stove production centre opening ceremony took place at the Lao Disabled Women’s Development Centre on Monday.
The Association for Rural Mobilisation and Improvement (ARMI) and the Lao Disabled Women’s Development Centre have jointly organised the Programme of Harnessing Climate Change Mitigation Initiative to Benefit Women.
The programme is opening an improved cook stove training course and also opened the cook stove production centre for disabled women, supported by the Northern Development Fund (NDF) through the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
The trainees will start producing cook stoves for sale after the training has achieved success and the cook stove products will be sold at the Lao Disabled Women’s Development Centre in Dongphosy village, Hadxaifong district, Vientiane.
Some eight disabled women at the Lao Disabled Women’s Development Centre who are interested in the programme, are learning about cook stove production during the five day course which will run from July 13-17.

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