Establishing a Literacy and Technical Training Center
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Due to high level of backwardness and illiteracy among the community, the majority are living under under abject poverty. RCMI is looking at setting up a skill training center for youth and women. The center will teach basic reading and writing skills since the majority cannot read and write. This will help reduce the high level of illiteracy in our community.
We are also considering different training programs to develop technical skills for income generating activities and self-reliance that will help to eradicate and break the chain of poverty.
The main source of income in Jinja East is agriculture followed by livestock, though this was greatly affected during the 1989-1991 insurgencies in the area. Cotton used to be the main cash crop, but it is now grown by very few households. The trend in crop production took a twist in the 1990s and onwards in that a number of food crops are now produced for both food and for sale. These include groundnuts, cassava, sorghum, millet, rice, maize, simsim, beans, pineapples and citrus. The second most important source of income is fisheries.
Pottery, brick laying and charcoal burning are also economic activities which some communities are engaged in for survival. Other sources of income derive from non-farm activities such as employment in civil service, small-scale businesses, and the service industry such as lodging and restaurants. There is an increasing trend towards non-farm activities due to uncertainty and seasonality of agricultural income and also increasing demands on households; for example, paying for tertiary education and health services. Hence most children are bound to drop out of school since the parents cannot pay their school fees.
If you have ideas to help us with either the literacy program, or technical skills training to help increase the employability of the people in our community, please share them here.
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All the best,
Jeremy Ecle
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