Let's give girls training for a vibrant future

This lovely bunch of girls below have just graduated from the Sandra Jones Centre Vocational Skills Training School.  Each one has had extensive training in greenhouse farming. Six girls have chosen to move on to our attachment program with 3 working on our farm and 3 joining Providence farm. The attachment program has proven to be a wonderful opportunity for our students to put their training into practice while having the protection of our staff to monitor their progress. Three girls from our last attachment program have done so well and achieved so much that we are now considering employing them full-time.

The next group of girls below have just joined us for our 2020 vocational skills program. For the next 12 months this group will receive training in running a broiler chicken project, a layer chicken project, a piggery, worm farming and greenhouse farming. This training program has been running for the past 8 years. Through the generous donations of greenhouses by AFCA we were able to add the greenhouse component in 2016 and it has proven to be the most popular module in our program. The girls are able to see huge returns for their hard work and it gives them great pleasure to be able to feed not just themselves but also the 70 children at the Sandra Jones Centre.

We continue to be so incredibly grateful to AFCA for making this project possible. Not only are our girls being trained and employed they are learning so many valuable lessons each day. Lessons which include: business skills, financial management, the importance of hard work and integrity, team work, goal setting, conflict resolution, and honesty.

Everyone here at the American Foundation for Children with AIDS, and our partners in Africa. thank you for your continued support of this important project.  If you would like to learn even more about this project and others, please contact Tanya Weaver at tweaver@AFCAids.org.