This training is aimed at having 40 teenage girls learn and develop skills in sewing where they will be enabled to sew reusable sanitary towels,clothes like shirts, trousers, skirts, school uniforms. They are expected to teach others also after they have learn t and at the same time make their own money to boost on their income through sewing.
Majority of girls in rural Ugandan communities drop out of school due to lack of school fees, early pregnancies or lack of sanitary pads, technical skills like sewing training is not available in the rural areas where they live yet if they are knowledgeable in this, it can give them a daily income, can help them buy necessary medicines, and makes them capable of paying school fees for their children.
It is anticipated that sewing training will provide self-employment to these girls and boost on their daily income and can enable them to buy necessary utensils and pay school fees and scholastic materials for their children and may be take care of their siblings.
Mountains of Hope aims to improve economic status of young women and their families through business skills and informal education. We will have empowered them and enabled them to improve their status.
