Skilling
bankable, employable skills
"If 'Education is expensive',
then try ignorance."
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Skilling Ugandans
Martin Kiganda. Jun 2024
Baby girl playing on street
CEO hands over a snack
There is a skills mismatch in Uganda that leaves even the uneducated feeling powerless. As the city grows and the salary shrinks, workers tend to fall into the wlefare trap where they live from hand to mouth.
We offer skills through apprenticeships in:
- Hair dressing and Saloon
- Art and Craft Making
- Automotive Mechanics or garage work
"Give a man a fish and he will feed his family for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he'll feed his family for a lifetime."
Proverb
Why Skills?
Teenager receives gift of sanitary pads
CEO shares a light moment with a young boy
Many young mothers are disadvantaged by early pregnancy resulting from rape or defilement. The resulting children are disadvantaged from the get-go as the fathers go absent; leaving the mothers to fend for themselves.
In line with the Foundation’s name ‘Tondeka’ (Eng: “leave no one behind”), the skills will benefit the...
- Trainee: Most caregivers in streets and slums are single mothers who lack employable skills. A new set of skills is a much-needed lifeline.
- City: As residents learn to work, they pursue alternatives to crime rate and prostitution.
- Family: When the breadwinner get more skills and better work, it translates into better standard of living for the household.
"The face of poverty in Africa is a female one."
Wise Saying
How will we skill Ugandans?
smiling child at the street site
CEO delivers surprise to street girl
Tondeka Foundation supports community systems development through atleast 4 HEEL avenues namely:
- Health services and counselling via medical camps.
- Education: develop bankable skills like adult literacy, craft academy.
- Economic Empowerment by collective production and marketing of artefacts.
- Leadership: developing positive mindsets and social-cultural values.
Where?starting with Kiwuunya zone in Lusaze Slum, Kampala City
When?Starting this May 2024 – 2026 over 1000 days of action.
Who? In targetting the slum community which lives in urban squalour, we’re employing a PPP Partnership (public-private-people) as in…
- Private Sector led by Tondeka Foundation – Kampala.
- Public Sector led by Kiwuunya-Lusaze LC1 Village Local Government.
- People Sector led by Corporate Business Partners of Tondeka Foundation.
"We are targetting the slum community which lives in urban squalour, we’re employing a model of PPP Partnership (public-private-people)."
Ready to Support
skilling of the vulnerables?
Contact Focal Point:
Martin Kiganda Semwanga,
+256 709 259 606, info(@)tondeka.org