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Summary
Youths are faced with different challenges including drug abuse, early girl child marriages, education inequality and unemployment among others. As Kisa foundation Team took a step to make research to pave way for over 200 children beneficiaries of the organization to become important citizens to society. About 142 million youths in the world within the upper secondary school age are not in school with an average 14% of their enrolment into schools in developing countries, especially in Africa. This curtails the possibility of obtaining an acceptable or optimum education. While left out of school, youths are faced with different temptations such as use of illicit drugs, lack of employment, early marriages, child abuse and crime. The education inequality in the world today affects youths’ ability to compete favorably in the job market.
Youth unemployment in Uganda stands at 13.3% which even worsened during the COVID-19 directive on lockdown and curfew hours. The lockdown that started in March 2020 until July when it was partially lifted has left majority of the youths, parents and guardians jobless with lack of enough funds and ability to support both them and their beneficiaries due to the limited job opportunities as many lost Jobs while many businesses crashed since many where dealing in perishable products.
As Kisa Foundation Uganda sought to establish vocational training activities as to equip youth as starting from our pupils of Kisa Primary School as most of them are orphans so they need to be equipped with skills to both help the school and the pupils themselves to earn a living even in Holidays and times of uncertain disasters like covid-19. The program allows Youths to learn, socialize, share concerns and ways of mitigating the challenges they face in their day-to-day life.
We believe that youth empowerment is a process whereby children and young people are encouraged to take charge of their lives in which they are made aware of their direction of life to enable them make right choices and actions to improve their lives. Participation in youth empowerment programs can assist youths in improving their quality of life through the transformation of their attitudes, values, and beliefs.
Challenge
Lack of Employable kills: Majority of youths in Uganda lack employable skills especially in slum areas. Given the dropout rate from schools, most of the youths in these areas and the surrounding areas have not had open chances to learn hands-on skills such as carpentry, tailoring, engineering, hair designs, and baking. Therefore, they are left without options apart from engaging in unlawful acts such as theft and robbery to earn a living. Lack of skills affects boys and girls differently as most girls in slum areas are sometimes attracted into transactional sex in exchange for money or forced marriage.
Youth Unemployment: Ugandan youths suffer a 13.3% of unemployment leaving majority of them not engaged in constructive work activities. This is likely going to increase if no plausible interventions are devised mitigate it. This has created idleness which has destabilized and disturbed their contribution to national development. Youth potential has therefore not been enriched. Kisa Foundation looks
forward to offer a wide range of skills including though not limited to entrepreneurial and business skills,
which will enable youths not only to create jobs but also maintain profitable margins.
Drug Abuse: In a slum setting such as Nansana and its surrounding, most youths are culprits of drug use and abuse at a tender age which affects their concentration on productive ventures such as education. Nansana harbors a big number of bars where youth can easily access different kinds of drugs during their idle time. Drugs have affected youths’ focus on productive work because it lessens their concentration which in turn affects their future aspirations. Kisa Foundation looks forward to creating an appropriate environment to keep youths out of such orientation and direct their focus by engaging them in productive and high value livelihoods training and advocacy.
Human Rights Abuse: There are different accounts of human rights abuse against youths in Nansana such as rape and defilement. Victims of human rights abuse have deprived youths of their social life and curtailed their enjoyment of full rights and freedoms. Despite efforts by different stakeholders such as Police and civil society organizations to promote and advocate for human rights, the trend still continues hence affecting youths’ psychosocial and physical wellbeing, especially the girls.
The Program’s initiatives of creating awareness and advocacy will play a tremendous role in this regard. Kisa Foundation Uganda will offer different services in this program by conducting awareness and sensitization campaigns, advocacy, vocational skills training, livelihoods programs and the forum theatre. All these activities are geared towards improving youths’ potential to respond to the day-to-day challenges affecting their wellbeing especially in this period of Covid-19 pandemic.
Solution
The overall Objective is to empower the youth, Kisa primary pupils, orphans and the community with Vocational Skills and keeping them out of current poor standards of living, Breaking the York of vulnerability and having good working conducive environment to enable them obtain a successfully/desirable life so as to eradicate poverty in our communities and Uganda as a nation.
Project Objectives
1. To reduce vulnerability and dependency among the youth, Kisa primary pupils, vulnerable children and orphans by 20% in the community of our project catchments.
2. To mobilize and sensitize over 2,000 pupils and 1,000 orphans in Nansana and nearby areas by 2024.
3. To advocate and mainstream vocational training skills with other trainings.
4. To reduce the problem of unemployment by 10% of the youth, Kisa primary pupils, vulnerable children and orphans.
5. To provide 40% of Counseling and Guidance services to youth, Kisa primary pupils, vulnerable children and orphans on psychosocial and economic issues.
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