The project is intended to provide young women and single mothers in the peri urban centre of Kitemu Nsangi-Wakiso District with skills in the making of all types of socks for school children, men and women for sale in the city of Kampala and other parts of the country. The machines will also be used as training tools in making of embroidery products for various organisations and institutions from which the women will be able to get reasonable income for themselves and thier families. Many of these young women are young mothers who dropped out of school because of teenage pregnancies and poverty and live a near to destitute existence carrying out petty trades in agricultural products with capital of roughly $5-10. With no other means of survival, these women eventually join prostitution which exposes them to HIV with disatrous consequences.
The project will therefore provide these women with employable skills in the textile industry as industry workers or start their small business in textile and cloth making. The project will be able to provide training to atleast fifty young women every year. The programme will be managed by Rotarians of the Rotary club of Mityana and a community based organisation ''Association of Women in Community Development''. The association is involved in empowering women to become self susitaining and support thier husbands in providing for their families by engaging in economically vaible activites.
Some of the items to be purchased with the grant funds include; a brand new six header embroidery machine, a computurised sock multi colour/design socks making machine, a generator, various stocks of yarn/threads, payment of trainers allowances for the project period and subsidizing training fees for the learners.
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