Every year the Eastern Tibet Training Institute offers 50 full scholarships to local young people from impoverished backgrounds. Participants undergo intensive, live-in training in customer service, computer literacy, written Chinese, spoken English, basic accounting and life skills.
To date more than 200 young people have graduated from Youth Pre-Employment Training, with more than 90 per cent securing jobs before or soon after graduating. Graduates find meaningful employment in restaurants, hotels and as local tour guides.
ETTI is a local success story in Shangri-la, having created a vocational training program that meets the needs of the local community while providing real opportunities for local young people to find success in China's booming economy.
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The Eastern Tibet Training Institute (ETTI) is helping rural Tibetan and other ethnic minority youth develop the skills they need to survive in a changing world.
Eastern Tibet is undergoing rapid social and economic change. Traditional economic practices are increasingly unable to provide for the needs of rural communities. To escape poverty, increasing numbers of rural youth are leaving the villages in search of alternative livelihoods. Unfortunately, many leave without the skills and knowledge needed to find good jobs. Young women can be particularly vulnerable to exploitation.
ETTI's Youth Pre-Employment Training program is helping create opportunities for rural young people in Northern Yunnan province through education-based poverty alleviation schemes.
The Eastern Tibetan Training Institute (ETTI) is a not-for-profit organization working to improve the livelihoods of remote communities in China's western regions through training-based poverty alleviation programs.
ETTI is a registered community school directed by an international board, staffed by local & international professionals.
ETTI PO Box 150, Xianggelila Xian, Diqing Zhou, Yunnan, P.R. China 674400 | +86 887 8230044 | info@etti.org
