Multimedia training for school drop-out Youths
Multimedia training for school drop-out youths rolled out through iBEST INSTITUTE
In line with the mandate of the Ministry of Education to empower youths by equipping them with 21st century transferable skills, the Youth Center Division of the Department of Youth and Sports in collaboration with iBEST INSTITUTE in Thimphu has initiated a 14-week training on multimedia skills for 25 school drop-out youths.
The training is designed to provide youths with digital skills such as cinematography, story-telling, script-writing, 2D animation, visual editing, photography and videography. Besides, the training package includes an entrepreneurship component so that the participants can learn how to take up a business if they wish to.
The sessions will cover both theoretical and practical/experiential learning that will help the participants develop the required knowledge and skills upon the completion of the training. Since multimedia and digital skills are found to have a very high demand particularly in the modern digital market today, it is hoped that providing youths with such skills would help them find employment or start businesses easily.
Although the Center provides similar training programs to school drop-out youths at regular intervals, this is the first-ever structured course rolled out through a private training institute. The Division hopes that upon the completion of the training, at least some of the trainees would be able to get employment with the knowledge and skills they have acquired.
The training was launched today by Rinzin Wangmo, the Department’s Offtg. Director General, officials from the center and the technical team from iBEST INSTITUTE.
The training project is supported by UNICEF and the sessions will be held from Monday-Saturday.