By Julie Nixon | Country Director
SWIFT is progressing with our work in overcoming poverty. To date we have been able to facilitate the creation of 584 sustainable jobs. These jobs are sustainable because they still exist six years into the project and new jobs are being created every year. Each wage earner is supporting a minimum of six dependants in our country so this means over three thousand people are being lifted out of poverty. We believe that capacity building ad training must go hand in hand with a market access programme. Sales are the key drivers of job creation and we therefore have a sophisticated market access programme that includes in country buyer tours and local market access events such as the Bushfire Festival.
SWIFT has delivered Lean Production training to our members this past quarter to help members eliminate waste from their production processes. Part of the homework was that each member completed a string diagram where they tracked production processes in the workshop. There were some astonishing results, at one member we found that each of their nine employees spends a minimum of one hour per day walking across the workshop to different stations while making products. A whole new layout has been done and has already had a positive impact on quality.
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