This project will train 1000 young mothers in Gulu district in tailoring, enabling them to gain critical skills that can earn them employment and also allow them start their own tailoring business. Child Equal Opportunity Uganda (CEOU) plan to expand its newly created young mothers tailoring center to provide free training in tailoring to young mothers who hail from the poorest communities in Gulu.
Most teenage girls who drop out of school due to pregnancy suffer in many ways as their parents stops supporting them, while most of the men who are responsible for their pregnancies, turn their back on them. The ones who suffer the most in this situation are the children of these teenage girls who desperately need basic care to survive. Some of these teenage mothers are then forced into prostitutions -something they would not do if it wasn't for their conditions of life.
Child Equal Opportunity Uganda (CEOU) has created a training center where these young mothers can get training in tailoring. The aim is to train them to do tailoring as a business and also to make them employable by cloth making companies. This will make them self-reliant and more resilient to poverty and it will further ensure that they are able to provide all the basic necessities to their children.
These 1000 young mothers will start their own tailoring business but also be able get employment with clothing businesses, if they so wish to be employed instead of doing own business. The children of these young mothers are expected to get all the basic necessities, since their mothers income generation is improved. The level of vulnerability forcing these young mothers in to risky life styles will reduce. These young mothers will also be used as trainers of trainees, in the future.
