KE 04 - SUPPORT TO KWPTI
Project Location
The Kariobangi Women Promotion Training Institute (KWPTI) is a training school located in Kariobangi, an area with a very high percentage of young people who are inactive and looking for ways to earn an income. The population is mainly composed of people who have migrated from rural areas looking for work to improve their lifestyle. Many of them are young women who are easily manipulated and inclined to engage in illegal activities to meet their daily needs.
KWPTI was founded by the Comboni Missionary Sisters in 1992. The institution was born in response to the large number of young women in the area who came for assistance and sought refuge at the Holy Trinity Church. Most of these young women were pregnant and without any support. The Comboni Sisters of that time saw the need to give these women some skills that would help them earn an income and be self-sufficient in the near future, and above all they gave them human and spiritual assistance to successfully complete their pregnancy.
So from the beginning KWPTI was created as a project of assistance for the most vulnerable, in this case women and children, offering formal education to young women in the area, giving access to holistic training in catering, tailoring and hairdressing and beauty.
Project description
Tailoring is the course of excellence of KWPTI, but like all courses it needs to be updated to keep up with the times. Currently industries in Kenya use electrical and industrial machines and our school must follow the example if it wants to offer training aimed at job placement. However, KWPTI currently has very few industrial machines. This project wants to provide for the purchase of new machines for the tailoring course, machines that will also be used for a project of sustainability of the production of the tailoring department. Furthermore, it will be necessary to adapt the electrical system to the new machines.
Objectives
- Raise the standards of the tailoring course to adapt them to the ever-changing job market
- Guarantee students a training school of excellence
Beneficiaries
Direct: approximately 80 students per year who are trained in the tailoring course
Indirect: families and society
Referent sister of the project: Sr. Waititu Leah Wangui
Project's costs