Overview

Chinese government provides sewing training course in Samoa in August 2023

Commitment Year•2023Country of Activity•SamoaDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•SamoaSector•Other Social Infrastructure And ServicesFlow Type•Scholarships/training in the donor country

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Aug 21, 2023

Start (actual): Aug 21, 2023

End (actual): Oct 6, 2023

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The purpose of this project was to provide a sewing training course, the Samoa Overseas Training Course on Creative Handicrafts and Sewing Technology, at Tooa Samalasina Hall in Sogi, Samoa. Participants in the training program came from Savai'i and Upolu Districts. More detailed locational information can be found at https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/187128876.

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

Samoa Ministry of Women, Community, and Social Development

Implementing agencies

Miscellaneous Agency Types

Hunan Vocational College of Foreign Trade

Loan description

Chinese government provides sewing training course in Samoa in August 2023

Narrative

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Project narrative

On August 21, 2023, the Chinese Embassy in Samoa hosted the opening ceremony of the 50-day Samoa Overseas Training Course on Creative Handicrafts and Sewing Technology at Tooa Samalasina Hall in Sogi, Samoa. Four trainers and a project manager from the Hunan Vocational School led the program. The Chinese government and Hunan Foreign Trade Vocational School implemented the training program with the goal of aiding Samoan development. Roughly 80 people participated. Hunan Foreign Trade Vocational School also donated 100 sewing machines and gave each participant a stipend of WST 10 per day. On October 6, 2023, the closing ceremony of the course occurred.