Uganda Youth Development and Training Programme plans to build a learning hall for 100 rural artisan student in Uganda to provide free functional skills like, tailoring, hair dressing,making soap, shopping bags ,saucepans, metal fabrication, computer application and many others.The rural artisan students are youth and women in the rural communities of Uganda who have dropped out of school due to many reasons and luck the skills to help them generate income to sustain their families
Uganda is highly affected by youth unemployment. It is estimated to be more than 83% among the youth. The current economic growth in Uganda will not cope with the growing number of unemployed youth, alternative strategies need to be developed. To make it even worse, only 1.5% of the unemployed youth have formal education beyond secondary school level and the remaining over 92% have no vocational or professional skills.UYDT receives over 50 artisans monthly yet there is limited training classes.
The project will Purchase building materials like cement, bricks ,nails, sand, timber,paint, electricity accessories to construct a learning hall to accommodate 100 rural artisan students . the 100 students will be trained on functional skills like wood products , fashion and design, hair dressing and many others, in this learning hall there will also be peer to peer learning for the youth, women and all the community dialogues.
The project will educate 100 youth and women in functional skills, allowing them to raise out of poverty, which will provide for their families' health and ell-being The project will also empower the youth on entrepreneurial skills to create jobs for themselves hence help[ reduce the problem of youth unemployment. The project will also ensure the productivity of the youth in the community, hence improve the standard of the villages,community and the economy of Uganda at large.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
