Establishing
of a social and vocational training centre in KALONGO, PADER
District
Objective
:
To ensure social rehabilitation and offer income generating
opportunities to child girls at high risk of abuse.
Beneficiaries :
Single mothers and orphans, selected amongst ex abductees,
prostitutes and disabled.
Duration
:
This project is also financed by private donors, thus ensuring
its continuation beyond the Programme time span
Implementer :
The office of the Programme for the rehabilitation activities.
A local religious congregation for the social and educational
activities.
Cost :
Rehabilitation and equipment : 350.000 euros.
Progress
:
Rehabilitation and equipment: 95%.
Training courses to start on July 2007.
In
2001 one of the biggest displaced people camps in northern
Uganda was established in Kalongo, with a population of
45.000 persons coming from insecure areas. In this camp,
and in Agago County in general, more than anywhere else,
poverty, congestion and promiscuity have caused the social
degradation described above.
For
these reasons Kalongo has been chosen as the right location
where to establish a social and vocational training centre
for helping girls in particularly difficult situations.
This center will be able to host 220 boarders. The rehabilitation
of the premises, an old dilapidated school belonging to
the Diocese of Gulu, has been done directly by the Programme
with local manpower and the supervision of an Italian engineer.
All the furniture has been made by local workshop runned
by missionaries.
As
mentioned above, the total cost of the rehabilitation, furniture
and equipment is 350.000 euros. Part of these costs, about
100.000 euros, has been covered by private donors together
with some of the management costs for the next two school
years.
The
management of the center will be entrusted to the Congregation
of the Little Sisters of Mary Immaculate of Gulu, already
active in Kalongo in the field of education through their
participation in our sponsorship project
This Congregation has a long lasting experience in humanitarian
aid towards displaced people with whom they share language
and culture.
Description of the center and available
courses :
The
area of the campus is 10.000 square metres.
The built area is of about 1.500 square metres with 9 buildings
which include:
-
the
administration block and the teachers room;
-
the conference center and the guest rooms;
-
the class-rooms and the laboratories;
-
the stores;
-
the refectory / restaurant and the kitchens;
-
the students hostel with a reading room;
-
the director’s residence;
-
the amphitheatre for social and cultural events;
-
the services.
Water
supply, at the range of 12.000 liters per day, is ensured
by a bore hole motorized with a solar pump and by 6 additional
tanks collecting rain water having a toal capacity of 35.000
liters.
A second borehole equipped with a manual pump will be drilled
as a back-up to the system.
Electricity for running the school equipment is is supplied
by a 22 kv silenced generator. An additional solar system
will provide power at night.
The one-two- or three years courses offered are:
-
Tayloring
-
Weaving and Dyeing
-
Catering
-
Computer literacy
-
Secretariat
The
center will also offer:
