Background
The Uganda school curricula focus mainly on academic teaching, leaving aside hands-on skills. Graduated students job hunting was much limited to white collar jobs. At the Kalungu Girl Training Centre (KGTC), students mainly come from rural areas, whose parents could not afford higher education fees, and where office work is little.
Activitites
The project offered the KGTC curriculum a versatile aspect in strengthening/including units of hands-on skills (agriculture, sewing, bakery, home economics) and financial literacy. They bought 20 sewing machines, sewing material, and seeds. Indirectly, the project also approached the issues of care of the environment fostering the use of briquettes and the students nutritional intake with the harvest of the agricultural practical unit.
Results
Students are not anymore limited to white collar jobs but equipped with skills with whom they can earn their living through self-employment. The skills students learnt fit in their rural realities and they are having multiplier effects as they teach/offer their relatives their new skills. Students interest in learning raised making them responsible and self-motivated in learning new skills
People being served
People being served : Children and Young People
Age group : Children 0-17
Number of participants : 51-100
Schedule
Project status : Ongoing
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Overview
Society presence : Uganda/Kenya
Focus of the project : People
JPIC Imperative : Transforming and Being Transformed
UN Sustainable Development Goals : 4 Quality Education, 5 Gender Equality, 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
