Maavadiya Expo Concluded With Smiles on Faces

Maavadiya Career Expo was concluded successfully last night at Aboobakuru School, Thinadhoo. Maavadiya Career Expo was a job and education fair directed at youth, organized by CHOCO and sponsored by STO (main sponsor) and Dhiraagu (co-sponsor). The expo was held at the main hall of Thinadhoo Aboobakuru School from 24th November to 25th November 2009. Everyday 2 sessions was held – from 4-6pm and 8-11pm.
hairperson of CHOCO states that the objective of the event is to connect the young people with the education and job providers of the Maldives and to let the job and education providers to know about the skills and interests of the youth. 

 There were 24 stalls in the expo, ranging from large corporate, resorts, private companies, foreign and Maldivian colleges and Maldivian educational institutions. Furthermore, several local NGOs also participated in the event to give information about the opportunities for youth in programs they run. In addition, Thinadhoo Reigional hospital also had a stall to give awareness information about the sudden outbreak of swine flu in the Maldives and ways to prevent from it. 

 Participants expressed their overall pleasure with regard to the execution of the event. Evaluation from the participants indicate that more than 40% of the participants are extremely happy with the expo overall, and around 50% of the participants were considerably happy. The main concern for participants, as well as the visitors, was that the location of the event was a little too remote. 

The expo was visited by a considerable number of people, unofficial figure ranging above 2000 visitors in total. Visitors also expressed their overall pleasure with regard to the event. The information content and overall organization of the event was most desired aspects by the visitors to the expo. These include hundreds of participants from Kolamafushi and Hoadehdhoo. CHOCO wishses to thank Huvadhoo Association for National Development (HAND), for their corporation with regard to assistance in hospitality provided for the group from Kolamafushi. 

CHOCO wishes to thank everyone who helped in carrying out this expo, this successfully in such a magnitude. Efforts of members of CHOCO and hard-working volunteers deserve a notable mention. Thinadhoo MP, Mohamed Gasam, Upper South Province Office, Thinadhoo Aboobakuru School has given lot of assistance during the course of the program at various stages and hence CHOCO thanks all these parties. CHOCO would also like to thank assistance from main sponsor, STO, co-sponsor, Dhiraagu, and media partners, MNBC and Haveeru.