Makere Vocational & Entrepreneurship Training center (MVETc) through this project will run vocational and entrepreneurship trainings providing a marketable skills, knowledge and confidence to 200 rural youth (120 girls, 80 boys) who have been suffering from unemployment challenge in Kigoma region. The project will support them with start-up tools/Kits to enable them to establish their own business workshops. The project will also link them with market to buy raw materials and sell their products
Currently, there are over 500,000 youths who are struggling to find employment in Kigoma Region. According to WEKEZA 2014-16, most of youth aspire to employ themselves through vocational skills but they fail due to poor financial capacity to pay for training fee. Due to this, they have been migrating to urban area with mindset to get green jobs. Unfortunately, many find no jobs and resort to bad behaviors including crimes and other associated risks. This project will reach over 200 poor youth
The project offers vocational training on tailoring, carpentry, metal fabrication, computer knowledge and entrepreneurial skills. It will establish a mobile App to enable youth entrepreneurs knows principals and ethics on establish and run business and access to market information. Graduated youth will receive start-up kits to enable setting their own business. The project will support youth graduated in vocational to train their fellow youth under apprenticeship program in their home villages
The project will equip 200 marginalized and disadvantaged youth with skills for self-employment and income generation, enabling them rise out of poverty, reduce youth migration to urban areas and social problems, and empower them to become productive members of their communities and eventually, improve well-being for themselves and community at large
This project has provided additional documentation in a XLSX file (projdoc.xlsx).
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