"Move 4 New Horizons" – Vocational training for disadvantaged youth in Nepal

Swiss Academy for Development

In advanced dressmaking and tailoring classes, apprentices learn to make school uniforms and men’s trousers.

Shirts require skill withthe sewing machine too.

Most trained mobile phone repairers develop business in their own village.

As a side-line, they download music from the internet straight onto customers’ mobile phones.

The khukuri is a traditional knife that is indispensable for daily life in Nepal.

The traditional wooden scabbard with hand-carved motifs makes the khukuri a favourite gift and the khukuri-maker an artisan.

At seven days, the course for becoming a rope maker is one of the shortest.

The apprentices twist the rope by hand or with help from machines. The rope is made of babio, a tough grass that grows at the foot of the Himalayas.

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