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STORY: EGYPT/ SKILLS
TRT: 2:29
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: JULY 2009, EGYPT
FILE - JULY 2009, 6TH OCTOBER CITY, EGYPT
1. Various shots, trainer and students at plastics machine
2. Close up, of looking into the machine
3. Various shots, Ahmed
4. Pan right, teacher
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Khaled, Engineer:
“I learned a lot because now I know what problems come from what part of the machine, and I can improve the product, and increase the number of clients!”
6. Various shots, training
7. Med shot, hands touching plastic
8. Wide shot, class room
9. Close up, screen
10. Wide shot, students watching
11. Close up, screen
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Nihal Abdel Hamid, SDP Project Director:
“We reach out to certain sub-sectors of the economy where the government thinks they are important for the economy, as in textile, food industries, furniture, engineering, but whoever in Egypt comes knocking on our door in need of our services we have to extend them to him.”
FILE - JULY, 2009, 10TH OF RAMADAN, EGYPT
13. Various shots, training with Ayman
14. Pan left, machine
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ayman Abdel Maqsoud, Engineer:
“I am transmitting to them experience of mine, and they tell me their problems, the work we do together reinforces their skills.”
16. Med shot, Midhat working at machine
17. Close up, hands
18. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Midhat Mohamed, trainee:
“This allows us to apply practically what we have only learned theoretically. What we learned in college was only theory.”
FILE - JULY 2009, FAYOUM, EGYPT
19. Various shots, women sewing
20. Various shots, Nihal
21. Close up, hands
22. Various shots, women sewing
23. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nihad Abdel Karim, Supervisor:
“We take the training firstly to develop ourselves as supervisors, which in turn makes us more productive to the company!”
24. Various shots, woman in training
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Onsi Georgious, training Consultant:
“We have through our experience some companies who reduce the waste through training, some companies reduce the number of stoppage in the production line through the training because they train for maintenance.“
FILE-JULY 2009, CAIRO, EGYPT
26. Cutaway, Samir
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Samir Sami Riad, Riad Group:
“They know that if they improved the whole atmosphere and the whole thing and the results of the factory, it will reflect on them, and this is the positive side of it, and I am as an owner I believe if my people they will react and do a better job, I will react and they will get better wages and better money”
28. Wide shot, sewing
At this plastics factory outside Cairo, workers say they are getting the training they need to become more skilled-and more productive.
Ahmed Khaled, 21 years old, got his job at the Giza Plastics factory last year, right out of college. The new training has taught him and colleagues to recognize, and resolve, mechanical issues that sometimes impede production.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Khaled, Engineer:
“I learned a lot because now I know what problems come from what part of the machine, and I can improve the product, and increase the number of clients!”
Ahmed and thousands of other workers in Egypt are receiving specialized training under the country’s Skills Development Project.
The government-run project aims at getting private industries to use training courses, which improves the skills of their workers and- in turn -Egypt’s economy.
SOUNDBITE (English) Nihal Abdel Hamid, SDP Project Director:
“We reach out to certain subsectors of the economy where the government thinks they are important for the economy, as in textile, food industries, furniture, engineering, but whoever in Egypt comes knocking on our door in need of our services we have to extend them to him.”
Ayman Abdel Maqsoud works under the project training mechanical engineers at an insulator manufacturing company in Egypt’s 10th of Ramadan city.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ayman Abdel Maqsoud, Engineer:
“I am transmitting to them experience of mine, and they tell me their problems, the work we do together reinforces their skills.”
It’s Midhat Mohamed’s first day of training at the company, where he’s worked for two years.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Midhat Mohamed, trainee:
“This allows us to apply practically what we have only learned theoretically. What we learned in college was only theory.”
Under the project, Nihad Abdel Karim received training to increase her skills as a quality control manager at this Textile factory in the Egyptian city of Fayoum.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nihad Abdel Karim, supervisor:
“We take the training firstly to develop ourselves as supervisors, which in turn makes us more productive to the company!”
The Skills Development Project-supported by the World Bank- has so far trained 22 thousand workers in 800 Egyptian enterprises. The training is tailored to meet the individual needs of each participating company, which pays ten percent of the total costs. The project pays the rest.
SOUNDBITE (English) Onsi Georgious, training consultant:
“We have through our experience some companies who reduce the waste through training, some companies reduce the number of stoppage in the production line through the training because they train for maintenance.“
Samir Sami Riad heads one of Egypt’s largest textile industries, whose workers are receiving training under the Skills project.
SOUNDBITE (English) Samir Sami Riad, Riad Group:
“They know that if they improved the whole atmosphere and the whole thing and the results of the factory, it will reflect on them, and this is the positive side of it, and I am as an owner I believe if my people they will react and do a better job, I will react and they will get better wages and better money”
He says a better production at his factory, translates into more income all around.
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