COSDEF ARTS & CRAFTS

OYETU, "It is Ours" in Oshiwambo, is an outreach skills training program serving disadvantaged people and rural crafters throughout Namibia. The aim is to increase their income-earning potential through hands-on skills training and mentoring in product development, marketing and labelling & packaging of their products. Crafters are taught vocational and business skills, including costing & pricing and bookkeeping, to enable them to start small businesses. OYETU is sponsored by the German organisation Bread for the World, and COSDEF, the Namibia Community Skills Development Foundation. OYETU will ultimately train one group per Region throughout Namibia. All trainings are sponsored and OYETU provides all training materials. OYETU's goal is for the participants to establish small businesses using the skills they have learned and to create innovative, new product designs. To date OYETU has successfully trained groups in seven Namibian Regions and is currently engaged in identifying groups..

Also known as: COSDEF OYETU

Primary location: Swakopmund Namibia