Youth development

We address economic inequality by helping to keep marginalized girls enrolled in secondary school and by offering free, flexible skills-training programs aimed at helping mothers and female caregivers increase their financial capacity to support their daughters.

Since 2015, Lubuto has kept 66 girls in school by providing comprehensive, need-based scholarships that are guaranteed from the point of enrollment through graduation, and include tuition, uniforms, shoes, bags, school supplies, exam fees, and feminine hygiene products.

Makerspaces

The Mumuni Library in Nabukuyu offers skills training through a community makerspace where community members can learn skills like sewing, pottery, carving, technology, and agriculture—offering mothers and female caregivers a way to support their daughters and equipping girls with skills that will increase their economic independence.

Our kick-off makerspace activity was a Girls Can Code! residential technology camp that took place at the Mumuni Nabukuyu Library from April 7th-13th, 2019. The camp offered life-changing opportunities to 27 girls who arrived with little to no experience using computers, and left as amateur programmers who had created games in Scratch and Python, programmed robotic vehicles, and built their own computers. Girls expressed newfound confidence in their ability to use technology in creative contexts, establishing themselves as technology leaders in their communities and expanding their sense of what is possible for their futures. Meanwhile, mothers meet regularly at the Makerspace for skills-training sessions on topics that have included sewing, hairdressing and braiding, weaving, carpentry, and beekeeping. Mothers have also established a savings group that allows them to pool resources and start small businesses with the funds raised.

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