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Acehnese youth learn technical trades

Forty-eight students graduated from the Politeknik Caltex Riau Center on October 4, completing three month courses in electronic wiring and masonry.

Banda Aceh | Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Two students in blue coats and hair nets work to assemble some pipes at a table.

USAID/Indonesia

Students in electrical installation class practiced common household wiring arrangements in a laboratory.

Forty-eight students graduated from the Politeknik Caltex Riau Center on October 4, completing three month courses in electronic wiring and masonry. Now they are ready to take these valuable skills back home and help with the reconstruction process. This is the first group of graduates supported by USAID’s partnership with Chevron that will train a total of 330 individuals by the end of 2005. Other students are studying computer applications, bookkeeping, and welding under this alliance.

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