This project will set up a reconciliation centre in Kamwokya, providing entrepreneurship training to youth that have dropped out of school, work readiness training to university graduates and literacy support services to 100 youth a year that are at risk of radicalisation by extremist groups in exchange for money in order to reduce the rate of poverty, youth unemployment and underemployment in regions most prone to violence.
Uganda has experienced more than 10 major conflicts and has lost over half a million people to these conflicts in its 59 years of independence. At the centre of all these conflicts are youth age between (18 - 35 years). The young people are easily radicalised into acts of violence, because they are disenfranchised. The largest contributor to this disenfranchisement is the high rate of poverty and youth unemployment and under employment.
Our vision is to reduce the rate of poverty, youth unemployment and underemployment in regions most prone to violence and in turn reduce the risk of them getting radicalised to engage in violence. The goal is to ensure that young people are able to follow a journey from education and skilling to gainful employment while being campions of peace and countering hate speech. The engine for this vision is the set-up of a youth reconciliation centres in all communities most prone to violent conflict.
By setting up these community centres and skilling the young people we are giving them an opportunity to earn an income by so doing we are reducing the chance of the getting radicalised and involved in acts of violence in exchange for money. In addition, the centres will serve as a save space for the young people to discuss the challenges that they face in the community and will be presented with life skills on how to work together to address these challenges.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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