Orange Walk Women Complete Cellphone Repair Training

On Saturday, residents of Orange Walk District came together to celebrate finishing the Cell Phone Repair Training Course. Organized by the Investment Policy and Compliance Unit, this training aimed to help women explore new opportunities and boost their financial independence. Here’s News Five’s Britney Gordon with the story.

 

Britney Gordon, Reporting

Orange Walk District just saw a boost in women entering the STEM field, thanks to a cell phone repair training course. On Saturday, the graduates celebrated their achievement alongside Prime Minister John Briceno and the Investment Policy and Compliance Unit. Narda Garcia, CEO of the Ministry of Investment, congratulated the women on their impressive accomplishment.

 

Narda Garcia, C.E.O., OPM, Investment, Civil Aviation and Immigration

“Congratulations on completing the phone repair training. Your dedication and hard work have paid off and will continue to pay off. You have acquired valuable skills that will serve you well today and in the future. Remember that you are capable of achieving great things and that this is just the beginning of your journey in the tech industry. As Thea said, tech industry is evolving and evolving fast. Very dynamic. And from this, you will start to something greater. Keep pushing boundaries, breaking stereotypes and inspiring others. With your passion and expertise, we are proud of you and excited to see where your newfound skills will take you.”

 

Garcia expressed her desire for all the graduates to receive their trade licenses quickly so that they may start receiving income from the new skill. Several graduates expressed their excitement about applying these new techniques in their everyday lives.

 

Training Course Graduate

“Phone is the most important thing. In a home right now because you can you don’t use it only to do calls, but you can use it to do chit chatting, you can use it to do, to pay your bills, you can use it to do paying bills of social security or so forth it’s also you can do withdraw or sending money from one person to another, so it’s important in a home right now for using phones when the phone is spoiled, we get frustrated, right? Because we will not be able not to be able to communicate with our loved ones or to communicate at an emergency or something. So if we are be able to repair our own phone or repair the phone of our loved ones at a minimum cost, it is very suitable for us.”

The participants started from the very basics such as changing a screen and slowly advanced to more complex techniques such as welding and button replacements.

 

Training Course Graduate

“The girl that is back there, she managed to open the iPhone. iPhone is different from other phones. It has a special screwdriver that you have to use it. You cannot open it as how you can. She managed to open, I think, three of them, three iPhones.  Also, there was one of us who said that they would bring a speaker, so they brought speakers and they started to repair speakers because the speaker could not charge, and so they charged, they changed the port because it was similar to a phone. So at the end of the week, we were all happy and we enjoyed being together and repairing phone. We were, this is not a stop, but this is just a beginning for us. I hope you ladies. Do take it in consideration and continue, because it’s just a beginning.”

 

Although the course was just two weeks long, the participants are eager to keep learning and growing in this field, driven by their own dedication and the support of the community. Britney Gordon for News Five.