This project will Establish a Cottage Industry in Kigali City of Rwanda, targeting 150 Youth living in the street of Kigali City who will be trained in Cottage Industries and later will be enable them set up businesses related to the same products (soap, candles and chalk) hence ensure economic development, reduction of poverty and vagabond juvenile.
In Rwanda there are 2,882 street children, May 2019. The street children interviewed said that they cannot live at home because of unending bitter fights in the house by mum and dad. Others cited extreme poverty, some saying their parents send them out there to find food or don't care about them. Youth Living in Street who are idle, with no employment or means for survival will be helped by the project by involving them in the Cottage industry Production Unit and income generating activities.
We expect to reach 150 Youth Living in Street, mobilise them in the technical skill mentioned (manufacture of soap and candles). The Street youth will understand and appreciate the value of the technical know-how obtained, hence involve themselves competently in the production process.
The project will sustain itself after the phase of funding as the trained street youth will train others, set up other centers and the income from the production unit will strengthen the project further. The income from the project will be used to buy more materials for manufacturing the mentioned items. Not only will the project sustain itself economically, but also the beneficiaries will benefit economically on the personal level hence reduce the level of poverty and unemployment among Youth
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
