As part of the Career Guidance project, AYALA Charity Foundation has opened two workshops in the boarding school No. 10 in Almaty. Children from low-income and large families study at this school. Now they will have the opportunity to get excellent skills in sewing and carpentry with the most advanced equipment, which was acquired with the sponsorship of Oriflame.

 The sewing and carpentry workshops were opened in the boarding school No. 10 thanks to sponsorship of Oriflame back in 2016. But then they were equipped with a minimum set of tools and materials, so the children could learn only the most basic skills of sewing and working with wood. Now they have two full-fledged workshops, in which about 100 teenagers will be trained annually.

 The main goal of Oriflame charity projects is to help children get education and professional training, because it is education that is the foundation of a future prosperous life. “Over many years, we have been trying to help children make their dreams true and are proud that thanks to our company they will have such an opportunity,” they noted in Oriflame.

 The carpentry workshop has a modern workbench, a carpentry saw with the “three in one” function, drilling and grinding machines, two grinders, several jigsaws, drills, screwdrivers, angle grinders, hacksaws for metal and wood - more than 40 items in total of 903,400 tenge. Classes in the carpentry workshop are conducted by Bekberdiev Adil Zholdasbaevich, a teacher with extensive experience. He has big plans for teaching children: the manufacture of cutting boards, stools, tables, mending school wooden furniture. It may seem that now all this can be bought or ordered. But Adil Zholdasbaevich believes that such a workshop will help children to be more concentrated and attentive to studies. Also it may help them to enter adulthood with useful practical skills that can be applied in the assembly of furniture, in the repair of housing and, perhaps, in the future profession.

 Mustafina Almagul Seyfullinovna, a teacher who will conduct classes in the updated sewing workshop, agrees with him. In these classes, high school students will learn to safely and properly work on a sewing machine and properly choose fabrics. They will learn to embroider and sew things. “To tailor and sew simple clothes or bedding by their own, to make beautiful embroidery on fabric or clothes, to fix or sew trousers, a dress, a skirt – girls will acquire such necessary in everyday life skills in our new workshop. And to do it on the latest, safe and comfortable equipment is both pleasant and very motivating,” Almagul Seyfullinovna noted.

 Five sewing machines, including an industrial one, a three-thread overlock, a steamer, a large convenient cutting table, three sewing mannequins, an iron, an ironing board, sets of threads, scissors, needles - a total of 18 items worth 552,050 tenge make up a complete set of equipment for this sewing workshop.

 “Over 6 years of the implementation of the Career Guidance project, our foundation has organized 5 courses, opened 19 special workshops, attracted dozens of wonderful and caring people as teachers and mentors. We taught hairdressing to 5 children and sewing to 20 children. 60 teenagers attended home cooking courses. More than 30 high school students learned to make interesting video content for social networks. 21 teenagers from 2 boarding schools and the regional orphanage in Almaty started makeup, nail stylists, TV presenters and journalists, website development and auto electrician courses this week. And today we are very glad that two modern and safe workshops have started working at the boarding school No. 10. We express our deep gratitude to Oriflame Company, which supported this project. We are sure that the classes in these workshops will help many teenagers become more self-confident, and for some they will open the road to their future professions and maybe even to their own business,” President of AYALA Charity Foundation Aidan Suleimenova said.

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