Uganda Youth Skills Training Organization (UYSTO)

About us

Uganda Youth Skills Training Organization (UYSTO) is an organization committed to developing youth through sustainable skills training. Therefore, we do inform, educate, train and advocate. UYSTO has been founded 10 years ago on these principles and continuously promotes an ethos of social change starting at a very young age in school, and outside school.

Our mission
To contribute to the improvement of young People´s, youths´ and women lives through schools, community based education and other innovative ventures for sustainable development.

Goals:
• Creating an infrastructure of vocational training within the Ugandan educational system
• Facilitating access to vocational training by providing training to youth outside school
• Increasing international awareness and collaborating with companies and organisations that want to invest in training for youth in Uganda.

Projects:
• Vocational and entrepreneurship training: this is a project funded by FK Norway and in this, we do exchange of personnel, train vocational skills and entrepreneurship. Our goals for exchange are similar as we all target increased productivity alongside provision of startup kits to the finalists.
• Sanitary Pads: The challenge is that girls are dropping out of school due to lack of sanitary pads. The project will train teachers, students and technician Instructors to locally produce reusable sanitary pads with cheap materials and tools. This will also help the girls to produce their own pads at anywhere and with cheap materials like pieces of cloth, threads and hand needles.
• Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger: UYSTO works hard and tirelessly to address issues concerning poverty and hunger, with its approaches of basic skills in entrepreneurship and hands on skills training and food tower construction. Vegetable growing work camps are organized and school gardens put into place to increase on the food security.
• Combating HIV/AIDS; Malaria and other diseases
• Vocational training: We sustain vocational training centers. The vocational courses we offer include: Carpentry, Tailoring, Plumbing, Information Computer technology (ICT) brick laying concrete and practice, leather and shoe works, and many more to come. Along side vocational programs, we also collect books from donor countries and give them to the communities for developing personal reading, reading for pleasure and promotion of reading literacy levels to our partner institutions.
• Ensuring environmental sustainability: UYSTO intervention is in areas of tree planting. We educate, train and inform communities about environmental degradation. We form environmental clubs in schools.
• Active For Future: The project aims to develop skills, knowledge and competences of youth workers to increase their productivity and also youth to increase their chances for employment. To train youth workers and to give them new tools that can be used in their daily activities will develop environment for fostering youth employment.
• Strengthening Sub-Saharan Youth Career: We are to increase and develop youth workers competences in career guidance/education services for underprivileged youth in Sub-Saharan African regions.
• Promoting gender equality: UYSTO offered to promote women emancipation throughout its programs through promotion of girl child education, equal opportunities at workplaces, availing them platforms for being heard in communities, participating in traditional male employment opportunities etc.

Bob Maahe is the Director of Uganda Youth Skills Training Organization (UYSTO).

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