Job training for 100 girls in Sierra Leone slums

                                                     TRANSFORM AFRICA

                                                  GLOBALGIVING REPORT 2

Job Training for 100 Girls in Sierra Leone Slums

We have not been able to start the above project due to lack of funding.  It was designed to empower at least 100 vulnerable teenage girls most of whom would be marginalised single mothers struggling to feed and clothe themselves and their babies in the rundown urban slums of Freetown Sierra Leone.  They have dropped out of school and have been ostracized by their families.  As a result they suffer multiple deprivation and discrimination, which leaves them more and more vulnerable and poorer. Since the launching of the project, we have been engaging with trainers at the slums-based YDM Vocational Training Centre to design appropriate courses so that the teenage girls can gain marketable skills which they will use either for self-employment or to gain employment. A survey was carried out for the beneficiaries that are most in need in the slums so that they will be among the first to be targeted when the project starts. The local chief and community leaders are all excited about the proposed project and have already committed themselves to provide a free land space so that beneficiaries can carry-out practical vocational skills training. Since the launch of the project we have been trying to raise funds but have failed and we have not yet started getting any donations from the GlobalGiving website.

We are therefore requesting our donors to generously contribute to this worthwhile project. We hope that we will continue getting donations through the GlobalGiving website.

Links:

• Transform Africa Website