YOUTH VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTRE IN THE CONGO. Located in Congo, Africa, this secular purpose project is seeking funding for a vocational training, leisure and sports centre for marginalized and vulnerable children, boys and girls with no formal education qualification, to be involved in a community and learn a trade. It helps beneficiaries (among which orphans, street boys and raped girls), find like-minded, become employable, feel useful, regain self-confidence and dignity in their society.
The DRC is emerging from twenty years of crisis that have particularly affected its economy and its social structures. The labor market remains tight, leading to a high unemployment rate. Access to drinking water and electricity remains a daily problem, the HIV / AIDS is very present, and insecurity still affects many civilian populations. Every year, millions of children, youth and women are affected by political, social and economic instabilities in the county and the region.
Local structures have survived periods of unrest and the collapse of public funding. Local authorities in the sector are not able to provide schools with the support they need. The monitoring of the sector has been interrupted and is only gradually resuming thanks to the projects of international aid. We would like to teach job and life skills that prepare the participants for real life and be employable. Leisure, culture and sports facilities will shape the vocational training centre.
At the same time, issues that affect youth namely neglect, abuse, physical and sexual violence, and exploitation through child labor, will decrease. This project is set up to reduce the arrival of new vulnerable children on the streets, make young men and women employable, decrease the number of raped young women because they hang around due to lack of professional activity. The project will therefore facilitate full integration in the society.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
