The project will empower 15 teenage / child mothers with skills in tailoring, briquette stove making and hair dressing to make them self-reliant through sustainable self help projects.
The outbreak of COVID 19 pandemic in March 2019 gravely hit and affected the education of more than one thousand girls in Northern due to closure of schools. This exposed many young girls to multiple challenges such as sexual assaults, sexual harassments, early pregnancies and as such it orchestrated high school dropout outs. When the schools were set to open in 2022, many of this teenage age became child mothers and could not return to school hence necessitating informal education.
The propose project will train 15 girls in 4 months on environment friendly Briquette stove making, life skills, business management and record keeping, hair dressing and tailoring. Upon successfully completing their trainings, they will be placed at different established training centers offering experiential placements to let them gain more practical and lifesaving experiences. All these skills training support and exposure is to ensure that, the child mothers have practical learning options
The child mothers will become self-reliant and as such reduce on the dependency syndrome in their community, since they are able to sustainably afford the day-to-day expenses and contribute to their family livelihoods. Also, as the girls are trained, they gain more skills and as such, curbing unemployment since they are able to set up small self-help businesses.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
