At LaMP, we work to dramatically increase the scale and quality of labor mobility, helping workers from low-income countries to access quality jobs across borders and businesses in high-income countries to address deepening labor shortages. A recent media piece featured our work translating this vision into reality.
LaMP’s Kenya-Japan mobility program was featured on TV-Asahi, a national television channel in Japan, as part of a longer documentary piece exploring Africa as the next frontier of labor migration for Japan. In a country where sales of baby diapers have been outstripped by sales of adult diapers, Japan is recognizing the need to open to a wider range of young workers to maintain its workforce.
The worker featured in the thumbnail is George – a Kenyan worker going through the Technical Intern Training Program (TITP) pathway through the mobility program spearheaded by LaMP. George and two fellow workers will be some of the first 3 Africans to go through the TITP. They are following 3 others who have gone through the Gijinkoku (high-skilled pathway) and will be followed by several others in the program going through the Specified Skills Visa.
You can see our team in action here and watch the full documentary here.