Vocational Skills Training for 50 Youth

Summary

This project will provide valuable hands-on sewing skills for 50 adolescent girls. This will greatly improve her chance for employment or self-employment and as a result they become self-supporting.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

This project targets orphaned and vulnerable girls at the lower end of the economic strata in their community. These girls are prone to all forms of abuse and can easily resort to prostitution when faced with profound economic challenges. 50 girls identified in the ASAP/Catholic Relief Services funded Out of School Adolescents project will gain sewing skills, self esteem and hope for the future. This is an ongoing project that will train a few girls, as we have the funds available.

How will this project solve this problem?

A series of training sessions will be offered at Munyaradzi Training Center in rural Nyanga area. The 50 girls selected will gain sewing skills in order to prepare them for employment or self-employment.

Potential Long Term Impact

This project provides desperately needed survival skills for these selected out of school girls. But this is really about providing some hope where there is little.

Project Message

"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." - A positive view of life in spite of the suffering these out of school youth endure.
- Joseph Miti, ASAP Program Mgr. Zimbabwe

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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