Provide Vital Vocational Trade Skills Training
SummaryProject facilitates valuable trade skills training enabling youths and young adults to be gainfully employed and self-sufficient. This training, in high demand, empowers and fills a vital gap.
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Many school drop outs, school drop outs, orphans and people displaced by the civil war in Freetown do not have access to equipped facilities for training in valuable self-sufficiency trade skills. There is a high demand for the provision of practical and tertiary training services like this that will enable them to be gainfully employed or run their own businesses. Beneficiaries will be provided with assistance in obtaining some of the tools of their trade / helped to start their own business.
Activities
Beneficiaries will be provided vocational training in Sewing / Tailoring, Gara Tie-dying and Batik, Soap Making, Hairdressing, Adult Literacy. On completion of training, trainees will be provided with a toolkit to help start their own business.
Funding Information
This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Excel file (projdoc.xls).
Resources
- Project's External Homepage (http://www.developafrica.org)
- SKills Trade Sewing Class - Youtube Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZswqLse06c)
- UN Country Information - Sierra Leone (http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/sierraleone_statistics.html)
- SIERRA LEONE: “An idle mind is a devil’s workshop” (http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=71831)
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Project empowers youths to move from poverty and unemployment to self-sufficiency. It will contribute to youth development in skills for self-reliance and entrepreneurship, creating employment opportunities for ex-combatants & disadvantaged youths.
Project Message
This project provides a sure path out of poverty for youths as it makes available both the vital trade skills training and needed toolkits to help them succeed.
- Sylvester Renner, Founder
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Sylvester Renner
Founder
1906 Knob Creek Road
Suite 3
Johnson City, Tennessee 37604
United States
4232820006
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Develop Africa, Inc.
1906 Knob Creek Road Suite 3
Johnson City,
Tennessee
37604
United States
423-282-0006
http://www.developafrica.org
Develop Africa, Inc.'s Current Projects on GlobalGiving
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Sierra Leone
and can also be found under 
Economic Development.
For more information about Sierra Leone, read the Human Development Report on Sierra Leone or the Wikipedia entry for Sierra Leone.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on December 7, 2008
