Skill life training for community transformation

As part of our efforts to transform the community through skill life trainings, new life in Africa thought should not leave behind the teenage mothers of Acholi quarter. There are more than 3000 displaced families in Acholi quarter and the numbers of teenage mothers contribute to this. The life at this IDP (internally displaced persons camp) is very miserable and young girls have faced some serious conditions in this place similar to lack of school fees, Some drop out of schools at the levels of primary seven to even senior four due to such problems and end up idling at home and perhaps also end up joining their parents cracking stones or making paper beads products to make ends meet.

At the end of the day, they get disrupted by these men at the quarters that convince them with their money they get either from gambling or from the quarry works and make them pregnant at early ages! Having conceived at this age, they are either denied by these men or some get married to them under yet another new hard conditions. So the life cycle of poverty and sufferings just continue like that. As concerned community, we have thought of how we can break this cycle and that is giving them skill life trainings that would help divert their minds from these other hard like stone works at the quarter.

And the only skill life trainings we can offer them at the moment are computer basics and tailoring. These are some of the skills these teenage mothers can acquire within certain period of time and begin their own business like secretarial bureau, with the basics they would have been able to acquire and perhaps open up some boutique. At the end of their trainings, we shall need to see how to help some of them who would not be able to acquire these equipments to start their own businesses through small loan search. But some may get chance to be employed by these sole proprietors who would need such kind of people with such skills. Whatever the case, these teenage mothers have to go beyond stone quarry or paper beads. We thought to integrate the teenage mothers too in our community computer trainings. They showed interests and none of us can explain why we had left them behind! Never late than never, they are already on board. Many thanks to our donors like Life in Africa the mother of New Life in Africa that did donate countless stuff including training to its many members.

TEENAGE MOTHERS LEARN TAILORING



















COMPUTER TRAINING