Attending by Dr. Muhammad Amin, Rural and Deprived Region’s Development Deputy of the President, Dr. Eisa Mansoori, Ministry of Cooperatives, Labour, and Social Welfare’s deputy and director of Iran's Technical and Vocational Training Organization, Eng. Saeed Jafari, CEO of Barakat Foundation, and Dr. Mahmoud Askari Azad, head of Board of the directors of Barakat Foundation, deputies and directors of the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order (EIKO), a group of state and army authorities and participants of the training course, the second training course for the socio-economic facilitators of the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order’s Barakat Foundation started to work, the Public Relations Department of the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order’s Barakat Foundation reported.
Pointing to the creation of 10,000 job creation projects by the Barakat Foundation within the last year, CEO of EIKO’s Barakat Foundation announced about launching and taking advantage of another 30.000 job creation projects across the current year based on policies and emphases of the head of the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order.
Eng. Jafari said that 25 provinces, 155 counties and 6000 villages are target regions of this job creation projects and added, “Holding the second training course for the Barakat Foundation’s socio-economic facilitators seeks for providing and training the required facilitators to get through these job creation initiatives in the country.”
“Launching these job creation plans with the capability of creating more than 84000 job opportunities across the rural and deprived areas along with developing sustainable employment will play a key role in eradicating deprivation and realizing empowerment of people who are living in these areas,” he said.
CEO of EIKO’s Barakat Foundation also said, “In the same way, regarding the policies and strategies declared by the EIKO and Dr. Muhammad Mokhber, head of EIKO, Barakat Foundation has put atop agenda the issue of society-based models in the field of job creation. Creating employment leading to sustainable livelihood is one of the most effective ways to eradicate deprivation in the rural and less-developed areas.”
Stressing the fact that an upheaval taken place in the field of job creation in the last year, Eng. Jafari said, “In the last, with help of 200 facilitators we succeeded to launch 10,000 job creation projects with the capability of developing 40,000 new job opportunities in 15 provinces and 80 counties.”
The CEO of EIKO’s Barakat Foundation referred to the facilitators as a sort of messengers of development and growth and prosperity in the deprived and rural communities and told the participants of the second training course of the socio-economic facilitators: “You can roll the economy’s wheel in these areas and the local communities will be led towards the sustainable development.”
