A statement from the IOM office notes that, the workshop is aimed at equipping the retrenched mine-workers with skills that could enable them make decisive decisions so that they could not misuse packages that they have been/are given when retrenched from the South African mines.
 

It goes on that, some of the retrenched miners get confused that they have lost their jobs, in the process, fail to cope with life due to lack of life skills.
 

Topics to be covered include, coping and understanding retrenchment, livelihood guidance, gender awareness and social change, where participants will be urged to involve their spouses in decision-making on family matters, so that they could make stable families.

The statement further notes that, the participants will be lectured on Sexually Transmitted Diseases including HIV/AIDS, which it says, (both) seem become the major sources of problems among sexually active groups in society.

It is noted also that, it is important that people know their status as regards the HIV/AIDS; adding that, the participants at the workshop will be encouraged to go for blood testing, which is conducted on voluntary
basis.
 

The workshop will target also issues of business-management, so that the participants could establish income-generating projects as part of efforts to overcome the high rate of poverty in the country.
 

The IOM office in Lesotho got established in the year 2001, to equip the ex-mine workers with life skills as well
as with project formulation and management skills, to enable them generate income for their subsistence.