Education Uganda Project #5967

Training to lift young Ugandans out of poverty

by HANDS AROUND THE WORLD

Training to lift young Ugandans out of poverty

Project Report | Mar 17, 2014
March 2014 Update

By Hugo Mason | HANDS AROUND THE WORLD Project Co-ordinator

Former trainees now with steady jobs

It is always with excitement that I visit Siriba Vocational Training Centre and I have just returned after spending nearly the whole of February living with the local Community and paying daily visits to the tutors and students.This time it was better than ever! And it was wonderful to meet two former trainees who have now found employment.

Almost every time I entered the Principal's office someone was enquiring about a course at the Centre which encouraged me. It really makes all the hard work very worthwhile. Things have greatly improved since my last visit two years ago and I was delighted to be able to meet Bishop George Kasangaki and his colleagues who were most supportive of all that we are doing.

Non-formal three month courses have now been developed in tailoring, carpentry and joinery, brickwork and concrete practice and motor vehicle technology and they are proving to be very popular because they are low cost. Unfortunately many very poor young Ugandans still can not afford the fee so they have been turned away.

I am keen to prevent this happening and will soon be developing with HATW, a simple sponsorship scheme which will cost little more than fish and chips for a family of four in the UK! This is something we simply must pursue. We know that these three month courses give so many young people, many of them orphans, the skill and confidence to look for real work in the future. Without this the future is very bleak. We really don't know we are born!

Hugo meets the Bishop during his visit

Watching woodworking training

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