A
plumber is a doctor in plumbing.
A brain surgeon or medical doctor will fail if we compare
them with plumber practical skills in plumbing.
But a brain surgeon's purpose of life is brain surgery
and not plumbing.
So a brain surgeon should attend new technology as well
as expert & experienced doctor's skill.
Same
with a farmer.
A great cardiac surgeon can not do plouging or dig the
agricultural land effectively because they dont know how
to do it or have skill to do it. Unless she or he had
done agricultural farming in the past (not just for a
day but at least a year)
A
nurse can not do heart operation even if she is there
in the operation theatre while operation is done.
This is because she is not skilled to operate.
Yes, both her and doctor spend same time in operation
theatre. Infact she spends more time.
So a doctor has a medical skill to operate and has sufficient
knowledge learnt academically about the conditions of
patient, practcies to be used.
But an experience doctor has developed more skills (mainly
mental skills) with experience.
So
skill development is for people from all categories in
all countries.
But we limit our skill development forum to only a few
skills, typically for those who desparately need them
for their survival. And thinking attitude of them and
the world about what they can do (this is for the so called
disabled which are differently abled).
There
is hardly any academic school or college of skill development.
Its practical experience. So there are many ways in which
one can do real life skill development and we will share
the efforts of NGOs which help related communities.
The
insufficient skills and illiteracy compel the poor section
of the society to put more physical efforts than those
which really need..
So despite sweating hard, they manage only daily wage.
Because they dont have skills, they use human labour elements.
If
the same person is a skilled plumber, then it benefits
her or him live life and gives them relaxation time to
conserve energy for tomorrow.
Its
the same story for agriculture or children or disabled
or women or youth or whatever category one thinks of.
Even
in the films, a skiiled actor doesnt need too many shots.
The first shot manytimes is ok. It not only saves time
for her or him, but for all the people associated there
and it really makes economic sense to be skilled artist.
Now
for some, this skill was always there but even the best
artist is not a perfect artist.
She or he needs to upgrade skills, know latest technologival
advances .. so skill development is like a Change which
is constant.
One
surely needs to know the challenges people face.
But knowing challenges is not even half the purpose.
The bigger purpose is to know success stories of how people
solved challenges, get motivated to use these stories
as case studies..
We
know a Good programme is a Good programme and like 10
is 10 in any country, good programmes are good case studies.
They key is change the programme based on community needs
or culture & political pressure or geographic pressure
... you can modify programmes, copy prgrammes, scaleup
the programmes ... We completely agree that Government
of a country has to address the challenges its citizens
face and NGOs need to help the Government. |