Sustainable Skilling
In Need Home Sustainable skilling program focuses on non-Formal Education and Livelihood Skills for Slum Young people. It builds on the notion that the majority of the young population and young parents living in slums in Kampala, lack formal education and skills and cannot compete with their counterparts for jobs.
The overall goal for sustainable skilling program is to improve the employability, incomes and asset base for the youngsters and young parents reached by the program in slums of Namuwongo. The program targets the marginalized youth and young parents (including single mothers) living in slums of Namuwongo.
The skilling program by In Need Home addresses the apparent problem in the country; Research has it that 8.8 million young people in Uganda, aged 15-24 are not engaged in education, employment or under any training (UNFPA, 2019). The Proportion of youth (aged 15-30 years) not in education, employment or training is 40.7% (UBOS, 2016/17) With increase in urban population, the influx of young population to towns hoping to get good employment is likely to result into negative consequences (UBOS Statistical Abstract 2020).
The overall unemployment rate (UR) was 9.2 percent in 2016/17 with the females experiencing higher unemployment rate (14 percent) than males (6 percent). The situation is worse in slums because the dichotomy between the rich and poor is particularly distinct (Davis, Kayla, 2019)
Uganda had one of the highest global slum populations. This is evidenced by the fact that 60% of Kampala’s residents live in slums (UN HABITAT, 2016)
Uganda’s rate of urbanization is one of the highest in the world at 5.1 percent per year However, welfare and poverty indicators for the urban population have not shown improvement in over fifty years (Mukwaya 2010). 63% of people living in Namuwongo slum, are self-employed by washing clothes; this usually meant they go from door to door asking if someone wanted to pay them (usually between $1 and $2 USD) to wash their clothes. This is because they have no alternative because they do not possess the necessary education