T.A- CRUSADE- UGANDA- VOCATIONAL TRAINING PROJECT

Each year, thousands of Ugandan Poor Youth and Children drop out of Schools and fail to get the basic gainful employment, while most of these are Teen mothers, Orphans, Victims of split families, Widows, Pregnant teenagers , from rural and peri-urban areas, HIV Victims. In the course of helping these victims of circumstances, we started a personal initiative in form of an Employment Agency in the Heart of Mukono Town called Twekembe Employment Centre which gives them some bit of Counseling, Meals, Temporary accommodation, Health Care and a Brief Job Mentoring, then give them out to people who employ them in petty jobs like House maids, bar maids and others paying less than one US dollar a day. Over 7,000 People have got jobs through our Employment Agency in the last 6 years though most of them are petty jobs given the level of Skills of the beneficiaries. Over a Period of time T.A-CRUSADE– UGANDA has become Conversant with Uganda’s Labour Laws and Regulations. Since T.A-CRUSADE – UGANDA carries out Parallel Monitoring of Workers recruited and Employed through its Job placement Bureau where ever they are taken, it has been witnessed that many have been manhandled, tortured, raped, overworked and some cheated of their wages. And many have desperately fled their work places to join peer groups engaged in deadly activities like thuggery, robberies, prostitution, drug abuse and others all in name of searching for survival. Consequently many have been sexually abused, resulting into unwanted pregnancies, contracting deadly diseases like HIV/AIDS. After rejection by Parents, Partners and Society at large many of these victims of circumstances return to our centre for assistance and moral support. In so doing, we realized that wasn’t a permanent solution. We are seriously overwhelmed by the needs around us given the fact that up to 300 new people report to us in one month for assistance and allocation to pet jobs.