JICA Senior Volunteer Activities in Bhutan
Jigme WANGMO (Ms.)
We received the following happy news from a JICA Volunteer in Bhutan.
Thimphu, the capital of the Kingdom of Bhutan is now in the middle of rainy season and it rains like cats and dogs everyday.
I am pleased to inform you that we could finally open the bakery shop in July. The shop is operated by Drak-Tsho Vocational Training Centre for Disabled, the vocational school I was dispatched. I have been teaching 6 persons with disabilities (3 persons with hearing impairments, 2 with intellectual disabilities, 1 with physical disorder) and 6 persons without disabilities for 6 months. They sell 20 kinds of breads and 10 kinds of cakes at the shop.
Many people attended the opening ceremony including Director of JICA Bhutan Office, government officials, and journalists. Not only because we were interviewed by newspapers and received local TV coverage, but also it is the first work place for persons with disabilities in Bhutan, we could sell our products more than we expected and we could make profits last month. To accelerate the sales growth, I would like to continue teaching how to control quality of products to my students.
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