Donate in support of Ugandan youth acquiring hands-on skills of welders; a business which multiplies investments ten-fold, within a day. "I am a welder. I deal in welding metals. In a day I can go into work with Shs. 2,000 (US$ 0.51) in the morning and come back home in the evening with Shs. 20,000 (US$ 5.13) through welding motorbikes & doors," a young welder testified. In Uganda, youth aged 15-30 years are the providers, but who are largely unemployed. Please gift them welding apprenticeships
Uganda now experiences prolonged periods of sweltering heat; temperatures reaching as high as 38.5 degrees Celsius in Northern Uganda, where we work. Meteorologists, confirm that high temperatures have been recurring more often and the trend is likely going to continue. Livelihoods via mostly agriculture that our ancestors depended on are increasingly untenable, since Uganda relies on rain-fed agriculture. There is an urgent need for youth to diversify into non-agriculture-based livelihoods.
A young innovator, Okello, an unemployed university graduate, who has apprenticed with an established welder and is endowed with practical skills as a welder needs seed money in order to establish a welding workshop in Lira City in Northern Uganda. Through Okello's workshop, he will access welding apprenticeships to hundreds of disadvantaged youths from marginalized communities of Northern Uganda; gifting them with viable livelihood life skills of welders; and enabling them to be good providers.
Daily cash-in from their welding businesses will enable Okello and his apprentices to put food on the table and pay for necessities for hundreds of households in poor communities of northern Uganda. Contributing towards the fight against poverty and deprivation in the poorest region of Uganda. Importantly, also, the dignity of beneficiaries shall be enhanced as productive, responsible and respected citizens within their communities and who may be entrusted with other paying leadership roles.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
