A vocational training centre
Social Balance
The QIA Vocational Training Centre
Restoring land creates real jobs — nurseries, irrigation, processing, forest maintenance. Permanent work, not temporary.
Right now those jobs go to people brought in from outside, because the skills do not exist locally.
The centre teaches a trade alongside the habits that turn a skill into a livelihood. We call that Self-Mastery, and it comes first.
Designed. Curriculum written. Land identified. Funding is the only thing between this page and a first cohort.
[ Four trade streams ]
- ConstructionBuilding and maintaining what the programs need
- AgricultureNursery work, planting, irrigation
- Food processingDrying, storage, packaging
- MechanicsKeeping pumps, kilns and vehicles running
[ How a cohort would run ]
- 01
Listen
Start with what the community says it needs
- 02
Reflect
Name the gap honestly, with the people in it
- 03
Practice
Learn a trade, and the habits that keep it
- 04
Serve
Work on live restoration and food projects
- 05
Sustain
Graduates train the cohort behind them
Self-Mastery runs through every step — the difference between a certificate and a livelihood.
One site, one intake a year, and a curriculum already written.
[ What is done, what is not ]
- Curriculum writtenFour trades, with Self-Mastery ahead of each one
- Building designedModular workshops around a planted courtyard
- Site identifiedBeside the restoration projects in Western North
the funding gap
Construction fundedNot yet. This is what a funder would be paying for- First cohort enrolledNot yet. Everything above is ready for the day it is
Status as of July 2026. The three finished items were paid for and completed; the two below the line are not funded.
20-30 people
employed on restoration at any one time
40%
of that work reserved for women
120,000 euro
day-labour programme, years one to five