In May this year, under the framework of the project "Green Skills Training in Rural Areas" in the Shabdan village, of Kemin District, of Chui oblast, was conducted a short-term courses on the construction of energy efficient stoves and ochoks by the trainers of the public foundation AMETiS. Participants of the courses were masters from among local residents of the Shabdan village. These days, Melis Niazaliev and Nurbek Sultangaziev, graduates of these courses, fulfill their first orders, which they received through advertising their services. The order for the construction of the 2 sectional ochok came from one of the inhabitants of the Tokhldosh residential area, located in Bishkek. Currently, the masters are close to completing the order and are preparing for the next order.

In the cities of Bishkek and Osh organized trainings on "Introduction of modular training". This training was attended by madrassas teachers, selected in the framework of the M-STAR project, as well as the trainer of the Bilim training center. During the training, the participants got knowledge about the methodology for organizing trainings, the process of conducting trainings. Also, the coach told about the necessary documents during the training. In general, the participants were satisfied and wished for the organization of such useful trainings more often for teachers.

On June 12, 2018, PF "AVEP" together with the US embassy in Kyrgyzstan and Shiraz Hajani met with teachers and students of the Islamic Institute named after Abdyjapar of the Osh region, Karasuu district. At the meeting with Shiraz Hajjani, teachers and students talked about friendship, unity and tolerance.

On June 8, a workshop organized by G-STAR partners. A project coordinator and construction bri-gades participated in the workshop. During the workshop the participants discussed the following three topics, (i) skills development trainings; (ii) challenges and success stories; and (iii) apprenticeship in con-struction brigades. In the first hour, the partners of the project AMETiS and CEEBA shared the information about EE skills development trainings in rural areas. In addition, they also shared the challenges that oc-curred during organization of trainings. Then the participants discussed their success stories, in particular brigades that significantly affected the daily life. Lessons learned from success stories have helped partici-pants better organize their work onwards.
A brigade leader told that nowadays it is difficult to compete in energy-efficient construction mar-ket, in particular, in the field of insulation of houses and construction of stoves. He said: “The advantage in market competition is that I have been using knowledge which I gained from marketing trainings organized by G-STAR”.
Moreover participants expressed their interest to improve the skills on marketing their services, through the social web-pages and the internet. The project coordinator has noted their request and in-formed that he will pay attention on this topic in the future.
In the final hours, the workshop participants have agreed that next step of the focus will be improving graduates` apprenticeship in current construction brigades.