Mirwais was born in 2004 in the Injil district of Herat province. Unfortunately, his father died when he was 9 years old, and after that, his grandfather took charge of their family. Due to economic problems, his grandfather no longer cooperated with his family and he was forced to live an independent life. Anyway, after this, they had to rent a house for themselves. At that time, they didn’t even have a small household item, which means that they started life from hand-to-mouth. When his grandfather left them the responsibility of their life, at the beginning, it was very difficult for them. He did not have any income, and they were facing economic problems every day. He used to do hard work in a mechanics’ shop, and he earned 300 AFN a week until he got familiar with the work. From that day, he earned 500 AFN a week. Anyway, he used to cover their daily expenses from this low income. Since he was nine years old, he took the responsibility for all the problems in his family’s life with his mother. Anyway, his mother tried all the time to make sure her sons and daughter would not feel anything lacking in their lives.
Unfortunately, the economic and family problems that he had prevented him from continuing his education; he was not able to continue his education, and this is the reason that he stayed away from his dream.

The village people, especially the Arbab of the village, saw his situation. They introduced him to Pashtoon Zarghon MVTC. In this center, he learns house wiring. In this program, he learns a vocational skill and receives a monthly transportation fee. Besides all of these, he gets an FFT for paying his family food payment. He got about 8000 Afghanis in each month. This amount is so good for his financial situation.
According to the learning in this vocation, he has learned more interesting issues technically and vocationally about life skills and hygiene, as well as how he can set up his small businesses in the future. All the mentioned topics have motivated him to work and have increased his hope for the future. He is overjoyed that he can help his family every month thanks to WFP 8000 AFA and that he receives daily transportation from the HELP and OSAA organizations.
By learning a new vocation, his life is changed. His financial problems have decreased, and his vision of the future has improved. He feels hopeful and empowered to change his life and his family’s lives. He is very motivated to begin his work according to his vocation. In this way, his life will be assured in the future.
He said, “My life was full of problems. I tried to go to Iran and find a way to change my life, but after immigration I understood that I could not work there. After spending difficult days there, the police crossed me from border. I was so sad and felt I could do nothing in the world. But from the time I came here, I felt that I could change the world. I know a new vocation and my mind is confident about my family’s situation. I will continue my vocation in the future and support my family.“

Mehrabuddin, son of Jelauddin, is living in Miyan DoJoy village in the Pashtoon Zarghan district. He was born into a poor family who were illiterate and busy with agricultural work. He lives with his parents and siblings. His parents are aged, and his sisters are jobless at home. Therefore, he is the head of his family and the bread earner in his house. With acceptance of a variety of problems, he could study until he could finish school.
He had to immigrate to Iran illegally to earn money. On the way to Iran, Iran’s police fired at him, but he was able to escape and went to Iran by the way. He borrowed about 21,000 Afghanis for this trip, which he could not pay until now. He had told them that by going to Iran, he could earn money and pay it back. But after being in Iran for about 12 days and looking for a job, police in Iran arrested him, and after beating him, they forced him across the border. When this drama happened, he faced a mental disease.

The village people, especially the Arbab of the village, saw his situation. They introduced him to Pashtoon Zarghon MVTC. In this center, he learns house wiring. In this program, he learns a vocational skill and receives a monthly transportation fee. Besides all of these, he gets an FFT for paying his family food payment. He got about 8000 Afghanis in each month. This amount is so good for his financial situation.
According to the learning in this vocation, he has learned more interesting issues technically and vocationally about life skills and hygiene, as well as how he can set up his small businesses in the future. All the mentioned topics have motivated him to work and have increased his hope for the future. He is overjoyed that he can help his family every month thanks to WFP 8000 AFA and that he receives daily transportation from the HELP and OSAA organizations.
By learning a new vocation, his life is changed. His financial problems have decreased, and his vision of the future has improved. He feels hopeful and empowered to change his life and his family’s lives. He is very motivated to begin his work according to his vocation. In this way, his life will be assured in the future.
He said, “My life was full of problems. I tried to go to Iran and find a way to change my life, but after immigration I understood that I could not work there. After spending difficult days there, the police crossed me from border. I was so sad and felt I could do nothing in the world. But from the time I came here, I felt that I could change the world. I know a new vocation and my mind is confident about my family’s situation. I will continue my vocation in the future and support my family.“

Sonia Noori is a 33-year-old woman who is a housewife and a mother of a street child, and then became one of the beneficiaries of the reintegration of the most vulnerable children through the provision of TVET and employment facilitation for 1600 people in Herat province’s “OSAA-016 (AFG118-22)” project in Ansari VTC. She learns advanced tailoring skills at the Ansari Vocational Training Center.
Before coming to Ansari VTC, Sonia had a difficult life. Her husband is a laborer, and his child works in a carwash. Her financial problems had been so much that every day she borrowed 100 or 200 Afghanis from the neighbors. Although she was interested in tailoring, she could not attend any vocational courses due to financial problems. She was faced with a real challenge.
Her biggest challenge is that she had no private home. In other words, they live in a rented simple house. She had to move to 3 houses in 4 months. Because of this problem, she could not have permanent customers, and moving to a new house takes a lot of time and energy.
“I have to move to a new house because my family could not pay the amount of rent due to my financial problems.” She said
She learns a new skill (advanced tailoring) and sees that this is a way that she can change her and her family’s lives. Besides this, she could achieve approximately 24000 Afghanis from WFP. She also receives the transportation fee (from her house to VTC) each month.

She could learn a skill at no cost (such as a tuition or transportation fee), and her family’s food would be provided during this time. Now she is familiar with different subjects of tailoring. She can measure the sizes and draw patterns according to the standards. “I never had the courage to cut a cloth for sewing a coat or a fashioned cloth. But after coming here, I can sew different models.” She said.
She was able to learn advanced tailoring skills after receiving the mentioned assistance, and her family had enough food. So, she could learn the vocation with a calm mind. Now she is a tailoring trainer in the (Ekhlas) course, and with confidence and knowledge, she accepts the customers’ orders. Both the number of customers and the fee have increased. She can sew different models of clothes with high precision. She increased her tailoring fee. She can earn money by teaching tailoring to other women in the course.
She wants to continue her vocation and dreams of having a workshop. She wants to produce clothes for districts because she knows what kind of clothes have a market in districts. “Until when will our society be a consumer, we have the capacity to produce the clothes, not import them at a high cost from abroad. I want to make a job for myself and for some other women and young girls in my city,” she said.
Besides, she has the dream of sewing pants and Monto to export to Iran because in Iran the cost of clothes is higher than here. She said that Iran is our neighbor, and exporting clothes is easier for us. On the other hand, this country is in a boycott, so the cost of clothes is higher than here. ”
Sonia is one of our most successful students who tries to have her own vocation in her neighborhood and always motivates her classmates to have their own business.
Nowadays, she sews a coat and skirt for 600–700 AFN, and her tailoring fee for pants is 200–250 Afs. She says, “I feel confident that I am a highly skilled tailor. I can sew every model to the world’s standards. I have the precision that an experienced tailor has. ”
She says that she is seeing a lot of changes in her life, and now she can pay for her children’s needs. She can be a big help for her husband at home. Today, there is enough food for me and my children in the house. “This issue makes me calm,” she said.
Nowadays, her neighbors come and borrow money from her (one day she had this dream), and she can earn money and help with her husband.
She wants to train other women or be employed as a trainer. But she is not familiar with courses. She can work in two shifts. She is grateful to OSAA, HELP, and all their partners for making this project possible for her and other women like her.
She said: “I really appreciate OSAA, Help, and other partners for holding this kind of project for us.” I really find myself powerful. By having this confidence, I can follow my dreams. My dream is to have a workshop and produce different clothes for my community or even for export. I really want to train other women to produce clothes and earn money for their families.
She wants to continue her vocation and not be jobless at home. I do not want to return to my previous lifestyle. I want to work and have my own private home. ” She implied

Malina Ghafoori, the daughter of Abdul Hamid, was born in DE Mir Sad Village of Pashtoon Zarghon in 2001. She lives in the Pashtoon Zarghon District right now. She completed 12 grades of school in the center of Pashtoon Zarghon School. She has a family of six members. Her father has been the head of the family. It means that only her father can earn money and pay their expenses. Her mother suffered from sickness and had lots of problems in her family Their way of life is so simple, and they are faced with a variety of financial problems. She says, “Before I attended to the Pashtoon Zarghon MVTC, I had a lot of problems. My life was so boring and my interest in being alive was decreasing day by day. But after I attended to this center, I felt alive. I am so interested in my life now because I have learned a new skill and want to increase it in my house. I can work and earn money. In this way, I can help my family, especially my mother, who is so sick.

Mirwais and his classmates are making a small group with the help of each other and he is managing it. At first, they have started a Facebook page and telegram called (LCD Repairers”. They are coordinating and taking the internal orders from their customers and repairing them. So far, they have received five orders for LCD repair, and all five have been repaired, and they have received some money as a result.This small process has made him very happy and hopeful for the future. He said: “I will be happy if, after I graduate from this center, I can open a shop, start working and earn money this way and spend it with my family.”
He has a great ambition to continue his studies and become a professional teacher in his field in the future. He loved street children. He said, “If God gives me a chance and my economic situation improves, I will definitely help the street children and share all the educational experience that I have already learned. So I never want to see street children on the roads of our city in the future.
Finally, he stated, “I appreciate all of the staff of the OSAA organization, Help INGO, and our trainers who are attempting to teach us and help us become useful and effective people for ourselves and our families in the future.”

Ramin Ataee is one of the beneficiaries of the TVET project in 2022 (OSAA-016 project). His father’s name is Basir Ahmad. He lives in Islam Qala. His family is so poor and his father is jobless; only his brother works as a car repairman and pays some of the family’s expenses.
He used to sell peas on a carriage in Islam Qala Bazaar. His life became so difficult because he had to stay in the sun for more than 13 hours a day. It was so hard work and the benefit of this trade was so low. He could not continue his education, but he continued his Quran studies.

His life began to change after coming to the TVET project. He is familiar with a new vocation, plumbing. Now he can learn everything, both theoretical and practical, about plumbing, and after graduation he can have his own business and help his family. He is so glad to solve some of his family’s problems.
He learned a new and useful vocational skill which has so many demands in his district after he attended the TVET project. Besides the vocation, Ramin gets the amount of FFT for paying his family’s food payment. He got about 8000 AFN per month.
He learned lots of plumbing issues because beneficiaries study vocational skills theoretically and practically in this project. He says, “I am familiar with all the essential equipment for plumbing, such as water tanker, hand stone, toilet stone, and water heater installation. I can fasten all kinds of pipes. ” He continued, “Besides my vocation, I learned how to start a business. This information was obtained after attending the small business sessions.
His biggest challenge is having no specific space for doing his plumbing activities (shop or market). He wants to open a shop for himself, but he is afraid of the rent of the shop. Therefore, he is looking for a supporter to cooperate with in opening the shop.
He said, “With the cooperation of OSAA and the Help organization, we could rescue people from poverty. These organizations help us to be independent and have a comfortable life. I am really thankful to these two organizations and their partners. ”
Finally, he said that the opportunity to learn plumbing was the best event in his life. He loves working as a plumber because he thinks it is a secure working environment. To him, this means that he can control his future employment by working hard and being committed to doing his job. He thinks that every day is a new experience for him because he has to truly think through customers’ issues to find the best solutions.

Mohammad Esmail Mohammadi is the son of Ghulam Rasoul. He lives in the Mir Hakim village of Islam Qala Town. He was born into a farmer’s family. He says, “My family works on a farm and is busy with agricultural work.” My father tried to earn our expenses, but our family is big, so he could not feed his children properly.

He said, “Before coming to Islam Qala Mobile VTC, I used to work in the custom and earn 200 AFN per day, but this work was so overwhelming for me. It was so hard for me to transfer heavy luggage from early morning until evening. Most of the time, I felt a pain in my back, but I had to earn money to help my father with house expenses.But after attending to the TVET project, his life is changed. He learned a new and useful vocation which has so many demands in his district. Besides the vacation, he could get his transportation fee. On the other hand, he gets FFT for paying his family food payment. He got about 8000 AFN each month. This amount is so good for the management of his family’s financial situation. His father is so glad because his children have enough food. Their family feels so calm about this.
“I really appreciate Help and OSAA organizations for executing such a program for us to determine our future,” he said and continued, “My brother was a beneficiary of the Help organization program five years ago. After finishing his course, he could have a big career in Iran. “I, as the representative of all Islam Qala people, am proud of the Help Organization, which helped the people when they lived in a most difficult situation.”
Mohammad Esmail is satisfied with the project, from which he benefits. “I acknowledge the OSAA organization that prepared the appropriate location, equipment, and environment. I learned a lot from this project. Besides my vocation, I learned general education. After studying the Small Business subject, I now know how to start a new business.
Mohammad Esmail can make every kind of door and window after learning to weld in Islam Qala MVTC. Now he can weld all the equipment. Before attending to this course, he never understood how to join two metals with each other. He’s really into welding right now. He wants to open a store in the welding vocation. Also, he says I want to continue and increase my knowledge and skills in the welding scope. He dreams of going abroad to learn new things in this vocation and coming back. In this way, he wants to help his society.
Finally, he told a story about himself: “When I was very young, 4 or 5 years old, I remember my dad taking me to a friend’s welding store. There was a guy welding in the back, and all I remember is how bright it was, and I was mesmerized by it. Since then, I’ve been hooked. He continued, “I will never look back. I had a challenging life, but now I will have a very rewarding career in the trade that I will always be good at. And I will add: I LOVE WELDING. “.