Activities for NAVTI Foundation Cameroon
Dress Making Centre
The aim of this program is to help orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) lacking skills, to train in dressmaking in our sewing workshops, with a view to them becoming self-employed upon completion of the course. They learn embroidery, knitting, design and sewing of all styles of dress, both male and female.
With this program, the young underprivileged members of the society are able to have an independent income to support their families, reduce youth unemployment rates and have a real chance of a successful future.
With the support of six sewing machines from PARMED NGO and Regency of Lomar Foundation in Germany, we were able to launch, in August 2005, a dressmaking training workshop in Tobin Kumbo town. The NAVTI Foundation bought two more sewing machines and a zigzag machine, we run a free two year training program for underprivileged children on different aspects of dressmaking as an income generating and economic activity. We currently have thirty students enrolled.