Girls' Entrepreneurship Skills Program
In Uganda, there is increasing numbers of school dropout rates of girls and child marriages due to poverty that their families are facing, Covid-19 made it worse. Such as trend is not only dangerous for the girls’ health, but also their life and future at large (Dr. Akhter during a girls economic & financial management empowernment function) 1 of 4 girls who graduate Primary Education proceed for Secondary education (Unicef and Uganda, country action plan 2016 – 2020)
Solution to the Problem
- Training vocational skills to these girls to achieve economic self reliance able to support themselves, their families and community at large
- Building self esteem during trainings
- Talking to parents and guardians to support and encourage girls to succeed
Proposed Trainings
- Fashion and design (tailoring)
- Hair styling and braiding
- Knitting & embroidery
- Interior & External decoration
- Neck less making, earrings, table mats, bead products.
- Making craft shoes, bags, bangles, jewel boxes, money passes and rings
How we hope to deliver trainings
- Outside sourcing and partnership with those experienced in the proposed trainings.
- Affiliation of our training Centre to licensed experienced institutions to guide and award certified academic documents after trainees graduation
Proposed Major Equipment
- Fashion and design equipment tailoring Machine @ 142 USD (2 way manual and electrical)
- Hair styling and braiding 3 Driers @ 142 USD
- 5 Saloon chairs ordinary @ 84 USD
- 10 Hair Dummies both artificial and natural @ 56 USD
- Knitting and embroidery – to be introduced later
- The rest of trainings listed above, materials summarised at total cost of 1,400 USD
Training Duration & Costs
- 3 months term, thrice a year for 2 years
- Payment of 3 trainers @ 200USD Monthly