SSEF champions vocational growth

Pottery involves using both your hands and your mind

The pottery course taught participants how to shape, carve, and paint clay. In addition to teaching technique, the courses helped people develop a strong sense for beauty and improve their accuracy and hand dexterity.

Baking: become an expert in the kitchen

In the baking session, people learnt about pastries and sweets, learnt how to bake like professionals, and gained the confidence they needed to run a small kitchen.

Chocolate making: from moulding to storage

The chocolate-making classes were a fun and useful way to learn. Participants learnt how to make candy, shape chocolate into imaginative shapes, and package their work in creative, marketable ways.

Barista abilities for today's market

The coffee course taught students the basics of making coffee professionally, the variations between blends and styles, and how to showcase coffee. It gave them barista skills that are in high demand in cafés and hotels.

The science underlying the aroma of perfume was combined with practical applications in the perfume-making class.

In the perfume-making class, students learnt the basics of how to make perfumes that meet professional requirements by mixing aromatic elements and creating scents. The course also covered branding, marketing, and presentation, which are all important elements in getting a perfume to market.

A smart investment in skill and potential

Nawal Al Hamidi, the Director of Social Wellbeing, said that these seminars show that the Foundation is serious about investing in the potential of its children and mothers. She stressed that hands-on training is necessary for participants to start their own businesses and make a real difference in society, as well as for bringing out latent skills and encouraging innovation.

Programmes based on interests and market needs

Al Hamidi said that the Foundation always adds new vocational programmes and improves old ones to keep up with the interests of participants and the labour market. Working with expert training organisations makes sure that the programme is high- quality. The workshops are part of a year-long system that helps people become more confident, independent, and employable.

She talked about how excited the participants were, and she thanked partner organisations for supporting these seminars as part of their community duty. Their work together makes the Foundation's objective to help people in creative professions that could lead to better futures stronger.

Al Hamadi said again that the Foundation is still committed to providing high-quality programmes that help children and families who have lost a father become fully empowered. She emphasised that vocational empowerment is a key step towards giving children a solid and long-lasting future.

Experts help with making scents

Mohammed Bashar Abu Harb, a licensed trainer at the Aufuq Al Ebdaa Training and Development Centre, said that more than thirty people took the perfume course, from experienced learners to total beginners. He praised the partnership with the Foundation, saying that the course gives students the tools they need to create their own fragrance identities based on scientific facts instead of unreliable information found online.

He also said that making perfume is both beautiful and flexible and that it requires both artistry and precision, which is what the course aims to teach through structured, professional instruction.

Continuing the road of self-empowerment

The Foundation keeps working on projects in several areas that help children and families who have lost a father. Vocational empowerment is still a key part of its long-term plan to make sure that every beneficiary has a future full of opportunities and growth that lasts.