STRENGHTENING AND TRAINING MOST AT RISK YOUTH IN SKILLS & TALENT ENHANCEMENT PROJECT IN LUWERO

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CONCEPT PAPER FOR STRENGHTENING AND TRAINING MOST AT RISK YOUTH IN SKILLS ENHANCEMENT PROJECT IN KAMPALA AND LUWERO DISTRICTS UGANDA .

PROBLEM STATEMENT.

That most at Risk Youths live in Kisenyi Kampala faces the most trying time is no secret, the income distribution in the country continue to be skewed to such an extent that the rich continue getting richer while the poor continue sliding down with in certain cases no square meal a day. Even the economic growths that have been registered in the past four years have not made any difference to the common man. The common treats the gains as mere accounting technique that has been developed by the elites to fool the people that development is taking place. The truth is the economy has grown but has not trickle down to the masses especially the youth refugees from the local communities . Today the youths and the vulnerable cry lack of employment, poor health care, poor road networks and continued loss of social worth. With the advent of HIV/AIDS pandemic the situation has gone from bad to worse.

Clearly, the approach towards reduction of HIV/Aids now required concerted area specific and age group specific interventions.

Table 1: AIDS and HIV Situation Kampala - 2016 Source: Daily Nation Special Report - July 1, 2016


AIDS and HIV Situation in Kisenyi - 2016 as relates to youths in Kampala today
Group Prevalence
15 - 49 years 5.9% (5.0 - 6.8% range)
Urban 9.6% (438, 000 - N)
Rural 4.6% (586, 000 - N)
Male 4.0% (349, 000 - N)
Female 7.7% (675, 000 - N)
0-14 years 156, 000 (N)
50+ years 96, 000 (N)
New estimates
Male youth (14 - 24) years 0.8 % (N = 32, 900)
Female youth (14 - 24) years 4.5 % (N =172, 000)
Total (14 -25) years 16 % (N = 204, 700)
New infections per year 60, 000 approximately 315 people a day
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With these revelations coming to fore it is important that HIV/AIDS prevention be given all the dimensions to that the epidemic can be controlled.

Hope For Orphans Uganda Initiates efforts to keeping youth from behavior and practices that detrimentally affect their lives and likely to expose them to HIV/AIDS. The youth still remain idle due to lack of engagement activities. What this mean is that they have more leisure time and energy, which they then expend negatively.

One of the areas that Hope For Orphans uganda is willing to venture in is to fully mobilize the Most at risk youths and communities through sports and to develop positive activity engagements and talent building to help the 250 youths’ under the project. It will be avenue for sensitization and talents talent tapping for positive development.

HOU hopes sports and develop events as a means to mobilizing the Youths within the slum areas of Mengo - Kisenyi Kampala aiming at ambassadorial youths spreading information about life skills thus reducing spread of STI/ HIV/AIDS and drug abuse through provision of information but as well as advocating for youth empowerment. This stems from the fact that most of the youth learn new behavior from their peers and act accordingly to conform to the 'ideal image’ acceptable to the friends. When the youth themselves are used through sports to influence the others it would be likely that a good number would accept them.

GOAL

To have more responsible youths who are able to make informed choices about their lives and environment through sporting activities to enable other youth get basic human needs.

OBJECTIVES

To reduce the spread of STI/HIV/AIDS and substance abuse.
To reduce the level of Youth thuggery within the slum areas
To provide Youth with an opportunity to engage in sports to reduce idle time
To empower the Youths through provision of relevant materials to help them make informed choices as individuals and as citizen of Uganda.
To mobilize Youths to engage in small income generating activities for their livelihood and as they go back they can even replicate the same skills.


HOW MYDEL WILL DO IT

It has been proved that sports at HOU have away of breaking barriers amongst the people off all walks of life as sports could be used to:
Bridge conflicts amongst the youth hence reduce youth fights and gang hoods in the neighborhood.
HOU uses sports to handle peer pressure (Sports at HOU is used as an excellent tool to discover how to act under pressure, learn by error and accepting win or defeat with dignity).
Sports at HOU have been used within the communities to end conflict resolutions.
Sports at HOU events have been used to pass messages, which would otherwise not be said openly.
Sports events have been used to tap hidden talents in slum areas that benefit the individuals and community. Its little wonder that most of the world known sports men and women came from slum neighborhoods.

HOU hopes to start youth drop in centers in these 4 slums for youths to be involve in supporting 250 Most at Risk Youth have the sporting and Music and Dance opportunities.

Through mobilization and engagement different sporting activities and communal environment management.

HOU shall facilitate and initiate activities that help and strengthening youths at these 4 slums drop in centers aiming at their self-reliant through activities that falls into three categories viz;

SUPPORTING 250 MOST AT RISK YOUTH THROUGH SPORTS AND MDD :
Under sports HOU , the project will divide areas into four zones with each zone forming teams in various sports considering gender discipline as football, Basketball, Volleyball and netball. Identified trainers and fields for practice. Zonal by-weekly meetings and visits will be for monitoring and evaluation. After every three months organized competitions/tournaments will be for every zone where the zones will be vying for a trophy. It is during these meetings when public speakers, sponsors would be invited to come and talk to the youth while the youths would be displaying some of their skills.

TRAININGS YOUTHS TO BE INVOLVED IN SUPPORTING 250 most at Risk YOUTH

A major part of this project would involve training the Youth to adopt life styles that would make them responsible citizens. HOU will offer the following trainings to various youths during the project.
HIV/AIDS prevention, Support, Counseling, Home Based Care, Referral services, Networking with VCT
Leadership
Business Development (Micro enterprise development)
Mobilization Skills
Team Building
Public speaking
Public Relations, Motivation
Report writing
Financial Management
Advocacy

INCOME GENERATING ACTIVITIES TO RAISE SUPPORT 250 MOST AT RISK YOUTH.

Garbage Collection to Raise funds and resources to support 250 Most at Risk youth.
HOU will be organize the youths and train them to form Garbage collection units within their areas and charging the residents for the services. The groups would be trained on how to manage themselves and finances. The groups will be trained in waste management, which includes components of recycling waste, which could be used to increase their incomes.

RESULTS/OUTCOMES

The Results/outcomes of the project would be:
Four Youth Drop In Centres established to ensure that the 250 orphans are supported.
Sporting activities under Drop In Centres Management in place by the end of the project to ensure the access to orphans basic need through sports
Reduction in levels of insecurity in the four slums that may hinder support to youth through sports.


Other individual results/Outcomes at personal (Youth’s) levels will be as follows.

Develop youthful and orphans personally and socially
Reduce incidences of Youths and orphans Risky behavior (youths Making informed choices)
Increase Youths and orphans self-reliance, self-discipline, social responsibility and spirit of Adventure
Develop a youth and orphanage a value for sensitivity towards individual differences
Learn about drug abuse and the benefits of healthy activity for orphans
Leadership development (Take on different roles such as leader or organizer and take decisions democratically)
Acquire the ability to reflect and evaluate orphanage life.
Help start Income Generating Activities for their livelihoods to end dependency syndrome
Discuss how sport can be used to overcome political, social and cultural barriers

TIME FRAME: The pilot project is expected to last one year and then it would be expected to be self-sustaining.

PROJECT LOCATION: The project is going to be carried out within Mengo - Kisenyi in slum of Kampala City.

HOW MUCH WILL IT COST

NO DESCRIPTION UNIT COST IN USD QUANTITY TOTAL COST
IN USD
01 Sports 4000 4 16,000
02 Skills Trainings 2000 10 20,000
03 Income Generating Activities 4000 4 16,000
04 Advocacy 4,000 4 16,000
Sub-Total
05 Project Administration 10% 680
USD 68,680

STAKEHOLDERS INVOLVED
Other stakeholders through consultations include: Sports for Social Change Partners (SSCC), Civil Societies along Great Kampala Capital City Authority, Faith Based Organizations; Ugandan Ministry of Youths, Sports, Gender and Culture and Ministry of Health and Environment.

There shall be also posted quarterly reports, pictures, activities achievements, best practices of the project and the progress.