Soroti Workshop
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- Created: 12 November 2016
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Generally Soroti town in Uganda accommodates mostly internally displaced refugees who had run away from the Lord’s Army in northern Uganda and those who had been displaced by the Karimonja cattle rustlers in the 1980’s and 1990’s. With the high unemployment rate and overwhelming poverty among the local residents, a skills training program to the local youths in carpentry skills with a local carpentry trainer was started in 2014. True Grasses has been involved in this workshop since the beginning and has been overseeing the work done. Since early this year (feb 2016), the centre now runs completely under the NGO; it is now called Soroti Youth Skills Centre. The centre equips youths with woodwork skills, business and enterprenuer skills for one year and after graduation they can start their own wood workshops or be employed in the local community as carpenters.