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Our new project

Learning Going Beyond (LGB)

We have created an online learning platform that allows women to have access to professional-skills courses. These courses are available through a mobile app and are accessible offline, so that women in rural areas with limited internet can still access them.

We are also working with some local companies to understand their needs for future employees, so that we can cover the gap between what young women know and what companies require.

Our new project

Learning Going Beyond (LGB)

ICT for Empowerment program
This program is aims at empowering women, girls and boys in the basic ICT skills like computer training, repair and maintenance so as to widen their chances of establishing small businesses and favorably compete in the job market. 

Overall ULC Social Enterprise Goals

 We work to implement innovative community based initiatives to empower vulnerable women and youths with knowledge, skills and appropriate information and services for self-dependence.

What we want to achieve:
1. Vulnerable women economic empowerment and self-dependency. Under this, we intend to:
a. Promote and improve women business skills through tailored small business and enterprise trainings for vulnerable women.
b. Build scalable, high-quality, replicable operations and networks to reach more women at lower cost.
c. Develop innovative and sustainable social enterprise models, and partnerships to sustain growth for ULCSocialEnterprise, Women and the entire Community.
In order to achieve that, we intend to:
- Organize practical training on small enterprise identification, management, record keeping, customer care services, and financial management skills.
- Form women self-help village groups through which women shall share experiences, save their earnings and get regular support on their enterprises
- Train women group promoters that shall recruit and train more other women and encourage them to join self-help groups
- Provide startup capital for small enterprises to selected participants. This capital shall be a revolving fund that shall be passed onto other self-help group members.
- Provide regular monitoring and support
- Establish partnerships and linkages with other organizations both national and international for project support and sustainability.
Our target women groups are: Widows, out of school girls, women living with HIV/AIDs, women with disabilities and divorced women.
2. Improving youth income and access to information through youth skills development. We intend to:
a. Promote youth empowerment and alternative education to school dropouts through vocational skills training and development of entrepreneurial skills
b. Promote Youth access to valuable information relevant for improving their standards of living and incomes. For example, information on youth government programs, access to savings and financial services, information on health, leadership and life skills development.
In order to achieve that, we intend to:
- Set up a vocational training center, offering training courses in carpentry, construction, tailoring, computer skills, basic agricultural skills, weaving and art and craft.
- Set up an information sharing and giving center from which youths shall have access to free information sessions, share their experiences, and get access to free counseling services
- Conduct youth sensitization workshops, leadership training, entrepreneurial skills training and life skills development skills.
Target group: Youths Living with HIV/AIDs, School dropout youths, unemployed youths
3. Promote integrated care and support for orphans and other Vulnerable
a. Promote the rights of vulnerable children through community sensitization
b. Improve the livelihood of vulnerable children through establishment of income generating activities like piggery, poultry, and goat rearing.
c. Establish care and support mechanisms for the most needy like provision of scholastic materials, clothes, school fees, and ensure social inclusion.
Target group: children with no or one parent, children living with HIV/AIDs, children with disabilities, children subjected to child labor, children under juvenile delinquency, children on streets
4. Improve community access to information on HIV/AIDs, Sanitation, Hygiene and environmental conservation
a. Promote access to HIV/AIDs prevention and care services to the community with a focus on women and youths
b. Empower the community to achieve sanitation, hygiene and environmental conservation
In order to achieve this, we intend to:
- Conduct HIV/AIDs sensitization workshops, screen videos on HIV/AIDs,
- Train HIV/AIDs peer educators, conduct HIV/AIDs testing and counseling services
- Conduct community sensitization training on sanitation, hygiene and environmental conservation
Target group: All community members

5. ICT for Empowerment program
This program is aims at empowering women, girls and boys in the basic ICT skills like computer training, repair and maintenance so as to widen their chances of establishing small businesses and favorably compete in the job market.

In order to achieve this, we intend to,
- Train school going and out of school girls in basic computer skills like Ms word, Excel, PowerPoint and publisher packages
- Train youths in basic computer skills, repair and maintenance skills
- Empower women with skills of using social network channels like face book, twitter, etc. to share their personal and family experiences to the rest of the world. 

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