HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS INITIATIVE

Track 2: Smartphone Filmmaking & Media Production

• Summary: A practical masterclass empowering participants to capture, edit, and distribute professional-quality video using accessible mobile hardware.

• Focus Areas: Mobile cinematography techniques, on-device video editing, visual storytelling, and social media production mechanics.

• Impact: Builds creative storytelling skills and opens direct industry entry loops into film, media, and digital content creation

 Track 3: Graphic Design & Digital Creativity

• Summary: A specialized design track focusing on digital canvas tools, corporate branding principles, and modern visual communication.

• Focus Areas: Canva & Adobe workspace basics, high-impact marketing layouts, and social media brand architecture.

• Impact: Supports small business branding and empowers freelance and entrepreneurial opportunities.

  Track 4: Sewing & Fashion Skills Development

• Summary: Hands-on tactile training centered on apparel creation, textile mechanics, practical manufacturing, and functional artisan trades.

• Focus Areas: Machine and hand-sewing mechanics, fashion prototyping, garment alterations, and creative textile exploration.

• Impact: Promotes craftsmanship, structural styling trade skills, and independent income generation.

Track 5: "How to Grow" — Urban Agriculture Program

• Summary: A green-economy training track exploring smart indoor cultivation, regional food tracking, and sustainable micro-farming.

• Focus Areas: Smart greenhouse management, local food security systems, urban vertical gardening, and eco-entrepreneurship.

• Impact: Actively counters local food insecurity while introducing participants to high-demand tracks like hydroponic operations.

 Track 6: Holistic Recovery & Reintegration 

Running parallel to our technical workshops is the Recovery & Reintegration Support Program. This trauma-informed, peer-led support initiative is engineered to support individuals overcoming personal setbacks, displacement, or structural barriers.

• Focus: Mental wellness mentorship, community re-entry frameworks, life skills, and holistic creative therapy.

• Impact: Promotes deep personal growth, social inclusion, and the long-term stability needed to transition smoothly back into the local workforce.

 Track 7: Hair-Cut & Grooming Arts

• Summary: A vocational workshop teaching the foundational techniques of professional barbering, hygiene protocols, and salon customer service.

• Focus Areas: Clipper and shear mechanics, fading and blending, beard grooming, and client consultation.

• Impact: Develops highly employable, immediate trade skills for self-employment and small business operations.

Track 8: Entrepreneurship & Business Development

• Summary: A practical business incubation workshop designed to equip emerging creators, tradespeople, and innovators with the tools to launch, market, and manage sustainable micro-enterprises.

• Impact: Promotes local economic growth, builds financial literacy, and drives financial independence.

 Track 9: Virtual Production & FX Training

To introduce participants to advanced film technologies, visual effects, and digital production methods used in modern media industries

• Develops high-demand creative technology skills

• Creates pathways into film and digital media careers

• Encourages innovation and technical creativity

• Expands opportunities within the local creative economy