name: Agency for Construction and Training
text: Agency for construction and Training (ACT) is an off-spring of Pak-German Technical Training Program (TTP) which commenced importing Vocational Training to Afghan refugees and local Pakistanis in 1982.
  
  Since then TTP has trained some 27000 people in different skills such as carpentry, masonry, tailoring, plumbing, welding and electricity.
  
  In September 1995 a group of Afghan staff of Pak-German TTP came together and formed an NGO called Agency for Construction and Training (ACT) with the financial and moral support of Pak-German TTP (a GTZ project) In order to set up vocational training program in Afghanistan in reference to concepts and experience of Pak-German TTP assisted training centers in Pakistan over the years and had obtained good results in placing graduates in the local economy. Training concepts were developed based on the local demands. Mainly six month courses were offered including various aspects of setting up early links to the market such as production-oriented training supervised workshops etc.
  
  They aim:
  
  - To reach large number of illiterate, Less educated, unskilled or semi-skilled Afghan youths to train them in different market oriented trades and to assist them in entering to the open market economy thus they shall be enabled to become either employed or self-employed and eventually become self reliant
  
  - To provide skilled labor to the local economy and in that way to assist in the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the war ravaged country of Afghanistan.
  
  - To improve the capabilities of the work force for the future challenges of gradual development of economy, community and open market competition.
  
  http://www.pcpafg.org/Organizations/ACT/