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do this job.
He spent some months in Haiti
but could get little done, since i
turned out that the scheme wa.
far too ambitions for local condi
tions. We therefore tried a new
approach.
Our second attempt was baset
on an existing training institution
which was unsuitable and under
stated. We sent team of ex
perienced vocational instructors
all of whom had been craftsmen
in their particular trades. They
reorganized and re-equipped the
workshops, revised the teaching
programs, and trained local teach
ing staff to carry on.
The school is now turning out
competent workers mechanics
electricians, carpenters, etc. = fol
local industry. AS result of oul
teams help, Haitians have beer
shown how to make simple wind.
mills for irrigation and power
Heavy cutlasses called "machets'
for use in the sugar cane planta.
tions were formerly all imported
now they can be made in Haiti
Another school is being tackled
now in the same way.
Apart from such tangible results
of cur Haitian program, there is
another result potentially ever
more interesting, although, as will
be seen, hardly susceptible to ex-
act proof.
If we consider the background
of the students in IL0-assisteo
schools in Port-au-Prince and Car
Haitien, one of the most important
results of their training may be
helping 20 change an attitude to-
ward work that is a serious danger
fer many under-developed eoun-
tries-the tendency 90 regard man
ual occupations as socially inferior
Most Of these countries. 81 the
present time at least. need cleo
triciaus before they need lawyers
We think that one Of our tasks in
Haiti is to build up the prestige
Of useful manual trades.
Another school which, unlike
Haiti's Is directed 10 the training
Of manp0wer in one clearly defined
field is the ILO-sponsored earth
moving school in Pakistan. A
major part of that country's plans
for economic development lie in
the field of irrigation and drain
age, and much of its limited sup
ply of foreign exchange is spent
on the purchase Of the necessary
equipment.
! AS the dams and canals took
/ shape, more and more expensive
and complicated bulldozers, scrap
+ ers, excvavators and the like were
/ being imported, while there were
relatively few people in Pakistar
who had seen such equipment, let
alone operated or maintained it
The international Labor Organize
ton was asked to assist in setting
up a school to train young PAX
istanis in the use, maintenance and
repair of this vital machinery.
An LILO expert arrived in Sep
TENDER, 1854, with the assignment
of starting the school and training
the staff. On his arrival he found
the site of the school at a village
in the middle of the Sind Desert
Buildings were there but uncom-
pleted-no window panes, doors
etc. Everything had to be done
from scratch-the completion OF
the school buildings, the water and
electricity supply and the installa-
ton of the equipment furnished
by the lilo.
Even so, modest start was
made at the end of 1854. The
first trainees were a dozen clean
ers and greasers from work sites
and fourteen new recruits of a
fairly low Level of litcracy. Their
first lessons had to be in simple
arithmetic. Selection methods were
improved, and before the expert
left at the end of 1856 a total of
222 operator mechanics and over
seers had successfully completed
the course.
The school is now running
smoothly under national auspices
with no further need for LILO aid.
1t is turning cut forty trained me-
chanics and operators every six
months. In addition, it conducts
refresher courses and special
courses for supervisors.
One sector of our operational