Training to lift young Ugandans out of poverty

Summary

Siriba Primary School is on the refugee road and has grown rapidly to 1400 children. Next door, we have helped build a vocational training centre for older children which teaches carpentry, sewing and life skills. Offering vital hope and encouragement to poor and vulnerable young people - many of them orphans - it helps lift them out of poverty. We need help to sustain and develop this important work. Can you please help us secure the next two years? progress report read updates from the field

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	£9 - Sponsors a vulnerable teenager through training, per month
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Uganda is a very poor country, and home to many vulnerable young people - many of the most needy have been orphaned and displaced. We have helped build a vocational training centre (VTC) comprising carpentry and tailoring workshops with a lockable store and classroom. Training of children started informally in August 2008 with 8 students in each of the two disciplines, and has now grown to 25 in each.

Activities

As the skills training also includes basic literacy and numeracy, health education and business skills, a nationally-recognised certificate and tool kit on graduation, it prepares these young people well for sustainable living in the outside world.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £314
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £1,844
Total Funding Goal: £2,158

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This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

This training programme aims to help children out of dire poverty and towards a sustainable and better quality of life - it is vitally important to break the cycle of deprivation and give these vulnerable young people encouragement and hope.

Project Message

I was very impressed when I saw the VTC in action. The students were well motivated and the quality of the teaching very professional. It was good to see such a varied curriculum so well taught.
- Rev Mike Williams, HATW Link Volunteer

Who is Running This Project

Contact

David Steiner,
Chief Executive
PO Box 117
Monmouth, Monmouthshire NP25 9AR
United Kingdom
+44 1600 740317
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Project Sponsor

David Steiner

Organisation

HANDS AROUND THE WORLD
PO BOX 117
MONMOUTH, MONMOUTHSHIRE NP25 9AR
United Kingdom
+44 1600 740317
http://www.hatw.org.uk

Learn more about HANDS AROUND THE WORLD and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Uganda and can also be found under Education.

For more information about Uganda, read the Human Development Report on Uganda or the Wikipedia entry for Uganda.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on January 04, 2012.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 21, 2010.

Latest Update from the Field

Training, tools, water and inflation

By Rev Mike Williams - HATW Project link volunteer, January 03, 2012 06:34 PM

The news from Siriba is quite mixed.

The new Head of the Vocational Training Centre is making good progress in the day to day training in carpentry and tailoring training with young people. But the longer term sustainability of the project will only be secured if the support of the regional government in this province of Uganda can be obtained. Before this can be done government officials need to see that certain basic requirements can be met, for example adequate latrines for staff and students and adequate equipment.

We have managed to transfer a grant to Siriba to complete the work on the latrines and to begin the electrification of the centre including the installation of some solar panels but further conversations with government officials will be needed to see what their next requirements are. We have also managed to send out some extra sewing machines and a laptop computer which has now arrived there. However we have been advised that the government of Uganda has increased import duties which makes sending equipment much more expensive and charities are not exempt from these payments. Discussions with the government are continuing and another batch of carpentry tools is being assembled for transportation, this will include a small number of power tools.

Water supply continues to be a problem. A second borehole was drilled in 2011 but proved to be a failure. The drilling company has acknowledged mistakes and promised to drill another borehole free of charge. This borehole has now been completed but, as yet, no pump has been installed. We do hope that a water supply for the Vocational Training Centre and the Primary School will be available soon.

Althought there is high inflation in Uganda, it does not significantly affect the value of money that we can transfer in grants because inflation has been accompanied by an increase in the exchange rate. But local supplies are affected and it is difficult for the project to purchase materials such as wood or dressmaking fabrics and threads. Hopefully the government will be able to get a grip on this very basic economic problem soon.

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