Youth Skills Development

1. Youth Skills Development

Equipping youth/women with life skills in tailoring fashion and design, Improved agriculture and animal husbandry will help to improve the house hold income and parents will be able to send their children to school and keep them in School. Team Work Afrika is basing on piggery project and will soon embark on a chicken/poultry project to support the children sponsorship programme a method of self reliance for children to continue with their education when the sponsorship stops. We have selected the above projects because they can yield profits on a limited space and in a short time. Other youths will be given technical skills to do something and learn to work with their hands, a component not given emphasis in the education policy that revolves around examination (written) theoretical skills) against practical skills.

World Bank 2012 statistics show that Uganda has the youngest population in the world at 83%, Action Aid International Uganda reports that 62% of youth in Uganda are jobless, the report further shows that 12% of all youth in Uganda aged between 12-30 are chronically poor with higher poverty rates among 12-17 years old as compared to the 18-30 years old.

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Our strategy:

In collaboration with other stakeholders, TWA plans to do the following:

• Training the youth in sustainable vocational skills and empowerment interventions at different levels.
• Gender sensitivity livelihood programming should be considered in enterprise selection.
• Reducing HIV infections, address stigma and discrimination of youth living or affected by this pandemic.
• Promoting lobbying and advocacy for supporting community mechanisms for sustaining youth activities.
• Government policy on youth geared at supporting youth life skills programs should be included in district action plans.

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