What does the ACWF do to help able-bodied rural women shift to non-farming jobs?
In our opinion, job training is the prerequisite for shifting surplus rural labor to non-farming jobs. The ACWF and local women’s organizations have launched a variety of job training programs for rural women by making use of the readily available resources such as rural women’s schools, women cadres schools, and centers for women’s activities. Thanks to our persuasion, the ministries of agriculture, finance, labor and social insurance and education have made training of rural women in non-farming jobs a part of their joint “Sunshine Program” C the 2003-2010 Plan for Training of Migrant Workers from the Countryside as the program is officially called. Job skills badly needed on the market are given priority under various training programs, for examples, jobs in electronics and information technology, domestic helper services, catering and garment-making, etc. The ACWF and local women’s organizations see to it that as far as possible, rural women in excess of the need for farm work get
