Two new vocational projects for the poor

BANGKOK, Jan 3 (TNA) - The Department of Business Development will start two vocational projects to help the poor stand on their own feet in January and February. Kulanee Issadisai, director-general of the Department of Business Development, said the department planned a job creation project with the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) and a professional maid project with Dhurakuj Pundit University and the Thai Hotels Association. The department aims to help find jobs for at least 5,000 low-income earners. The project with the BMA is intended to share business administration knowledge with the people who already received training from the BMA’s vocational training centers and schools so that they can improve their own businesses. The department will have experts in business administration train the people on, for example, business locations, cost calculation, marketing, basic accounting and online channels. The training will begin with cooking and beauty care students and later expand to other occupations. The department will ask financial institutions to lend to the trainees who need finance for their business and Thai Credit Guarantee Corporation will guarantee their loans. The professional maid project will produce the qualified maids who could meet the demand of the private sector and the members of the Thai Hotels Association planned to recruit the trainees, Mrs Kulanee said. (TNA)