Diyarbakýr Baðlar Municipality has ended the project “Women acquiring a profession for change and development” which was launched with the purpose of enhancing the employment of young women. 120 women have received a certificate so far within the project which was planned within the framework of the “European Union's Youth Employment Grant Scheme for Young People”.

Project coordinator Funda Ýpek spoke to bianet about the project in Diyarbakýr.

Ýpek tells that the project aims to take women out from their houses since the large potential of women in the region doesn’t appear in the daily life outside.

Most of them being victims of forced migration,120 high-school graduate women between the ages of 18-29 took part in the project which also aims to prevent gendered occupational segregation in the society.

Among the trainings the project provides since April of this year are computer management and operation, computerized accounting, elocution, communication, public relations and driving.

To give driving lessons was a good idea in terms of preventing gendered occupational segregation says Ýpek and notes that woman drivers could be seen in public transport vehicles and taxis in Diyarbakýr sometime soon. Ýpek notes that municipalities of Baðlar and Diyarbakýr in particular should lead the process of employing women in these areas so that the society can more easily get used to seeing them on these and similar duties.

Ýpek remarks that most of the women in the project had already got into a job in different fields although the project doesn’t directly promise employment to trainees. “They can more easily find a job because of the enhancement of their qualifications”, adds Ýpek.

Ýpek tells that Galanthus Women’s House will maintain the continuity of the project by supporting and assisting other women in the city as well.

Pointing out that Baðlar Municipality has a “sense of municipality basing on women”, Ýpek says that works and projects will continue by providing training to more and more women.