Non-formal Child/Youth Education
Status: 

Step:
1
Use this task to discuss issues related to non-formal education for children in developing countries.
Tell us a little about yourself and your project. Share your experience of providing non-formal education to children and young people who are not attending school, or as part of other child-related programmes outside of school hours. Make contact with others who are doing the same. Share ideas, ask and answer questions, learn from each other.

At Kampala School of Excellence Ministries we employ Art and Craft making as part of informal education strategies to help out disadvantaged youths in our community. Children who are not able to go to school due to school fees are intergrated into the Artisans project where they are able to make crafts and Art pieces for sale. Our organisation helps in finding market for their products and provides advice to these youths. This helps them develop vital skills that could enable them live good lives in future.
We have also put in place an apprentiship program where youths are apprenticed to local artisans to learn various trades. These include metal work,carpentry, vehicle repair and bread making in local bakeries. These in time are offered vacancies in these proffesions which help them earn a little income to sustain their lives.
Hi,
Thanks for this post, this sounds really interesting. Since several villages in Uganda are working as well in arts and crafts and struggle to find a market, could you elaborate a bit more, where you sell the products and how do you go about finding a market? Are the students also trained in business methods?
best,
Maria
This is shelter I'm talking about where both systems, formal and informal are employed. The children maintain a vegetable garden and use organic methods. Part of the produce is used by the shelter and the rest is sold in a biweekly market organized at the shelter where the stalls are manned by children.
They are also rearing pigs now but that's a new project.
Thank you for the topic, my suggestions on such a topic is that such children can be helped out by use of their God given talents through sports and plays as important information can be passed on to them. This information will be welcomed with a positive mind, b`se it has been passed on when the children doing what she/he wants most. This can also help them not forget what they are taught in that way you are able to improve their standards like a person who has gone to school.
--
musana Anthony