This project is seeking funding of exact amount of $50,000 for a vocational training and sports centre for vulnerable children and youth in the capital city of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that otherwise would not have access to education, be involved in a community and learn a trade. It helps the beneficiaries among which (orphans, street boys and raped girls), become employable and regain dignity in their society.
Because of the wars during the last 20 years, many unprepared families had fled to Kinshasa for refuge, making the city so over populated with about 12 Mio inhabitants that the already weak existing infrastructures can't accommodate them. This increased the number of homeless people on the streets, with children, youth and women being the most vulnerable. Local structures have survived periods of unrest and the collapse of public funding. No help from local authorities to this boys and girls.
To use Vocational Training, Sports and Culture activities to promote the responsibility, creativity and peace of the children and young adults living in the overcrowded and poor areas of Kinshasa. We would like to teach job and life skills that prepare the participants for real life and be employable. Leisure, culture and sports facilities will shape the vocational training centre, enabling this youth to play an active role in Congo's poverty reduction and economic development strategy.
At the same time, issues that affect youth namely neglect, abuse, physical and sexual violence, and exploitation through child labor, will decrease. This project is set up to reduce the arrival of new vulnerable children on the streets, make young men and women employable, decrease the number of raped young women because they hang around due to lack of professional activity. The project will therefore facilitate full integration in the society.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
