Our pragram from June to December 2023
YAREN’S ACTIVITIES ARE TO BE DONE BETWEEN JUNE TO DECEMBER 2023
Some achievements
HANDCRAFT:
Is a program that is empowering 16 teen mothers, adding a new design like a basket, pannier of clothes, or trivet… they are learning from Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9 am to 12 pm using the fibers as materials.
After learning they will be empowered by creating for their jobs and giving them a place of work as designers selling their creations so that they can sustain their lives, at now 29 handbags are available produced by the learners, at now there a challenges of the materials as the fibers to continue the learning, some bags and achieved, a learning session of 6 months and there will be a graduation with certificates.
TAILORING:
15 teen mothers are getting empowered in tailoring in collaboration with Lebanon Community Development Center, and yet they have yet spent one month, promoting their jobs and the place of work where they will be creating a new design different from other tailors in Nakivale like pillows in kitenge for bedroom and sitting rooms and curtains in kitenge selling so that they can sustain their life, we are looking for them a Kickstarter machines after their training of six months, learning from Monday to Friday.
For example curtains and pillows
ENGLISH FOR ADULT:
The 35 learners teen moms are taking a class in the level 1B, 15 men and teen moms are learning in the morning class, have been separated as Level 1A and Level 1B; Level 1A are starting 10 am to 12 pm every Monday to Friday
Level 1B starts from 4 pm to 6 pm every Monday to Friday, all in 6 months.
Library: 30 children are taking knowledge through reading books that help them to better read every Monday to friday from 2 pm to 4 pm, children from 6 up to 12 years old
TRAINING IN MENTAL HEALTH, MENSTRUAL HYGIENE, COUNSELING, AND STORYTELLING, The reason why we decided to make a training
- Creating a better society for high-risk communities is our vision.
- Fight for early marriage
- Prevent infectious diseases from menstrual
- Fight against mental health
- Fight against the increasing number of teen mothers
We want to train children from 11 to 17 years old about the consequences of early marriage, personal hygiene, and sexual violence.
Train teen mothers from 13 to 17 years on how to bring change in the community by training them at school about counseling, early marriage, sexual violence, how to prevent an expected pregnancy, and storytelling, to orient them to create a better society.
We will take 20 children per school in five schools, we will train 100 children, and the program will take 6 months, we want to achieve the goal of creating a better society for the high-risk community.
STEP 1
We will visit the schools and their directors so that we can plan how the training will be going
STEP 2
We will start the training with children from 11 to 17 years about the consequences of early marriage, menstrual hygiene, and how to prevent pregnancy. The training will be taking 2 hours per school. We will train 2 days per week in those 3 months by providing them with small motivation, eg: sweets, biscuits, etc after training.
STEP 3
We will start the training with teen mothers from 15 to 17 years old about early marriage, mental health, counseling, and storytelling. We will train 2 days per week in each school. This will take 3 months.
Liquid soap:
25 women have been trained in entrepreneurship and are making liquid soap in Kampala, we are looking to make the same activity that will be provided to women in the Nakivale Refugee settlement and some interested YAREN team members will benefit from it, this activity will bring some income for staff members, they will be doing it, then selling it in public places. The liquid soap will also help with cleaning at YAREN ( toilets, houses, and schools ), Home Gardens project, 15 young men are gain skilling program, all in entrepreneurship program.
To have some achievement here is our small documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OnCOeEifXg&t=4s
https://www.facebook.com/YarenorganizationAfrica/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BJNZRnVsY4nzRE8NUmK8DL0-XDqmaTUP/edit#gid=1711456565 here is some steps towards our financial illustration as a need at now