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The goal of the project is to provide training and productive asset to 20 youth to enhance their business and soft skills to enable them engage in self-employment. To achieve this goal, the project will have two components; 

1) Technical, Business and Soft-Skills Development

This will target 20 youth (ex-combatants, PWDs and  minority groups and youth at risk of radicalisation)

• Entrepreneurship Training (8 modules): We shall use the programme developed by Street Business School for this purpose.
  • Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone
  • Business Opportunity Identification
  • Finding Capital and Starting Small
  • RecordKeeping and Bookkeeping
  • Market Research
  • Business Planning
  • Growing Your Customer Base
  • Money Management

• Life-Skills Training (6 modules): The youth will be provided life skills training essentials for an active and informed citizenry. The training will also cover health-related problems such as drug abuse, the dangers of criminal activities such as gangs membership and terrorist groups such as Al Shabab.
• Block Making Training:  The youth will be trained on the use and maintenance of the machine, selection of suitable soil types and its preparations including the correct soil and cement proportions to use and taking care of the blocks. The training will be practical and each group will be provided with cements, soil and water.

2) Asset Transfer and Start-Up Materials

Once the training modules are completed, the youth will be divided into two groups of 10 members and each group will receive a package of productive assets which includes:

• Stabilised Soil Blocks (SSB) making machines: The machines manufactured by Makiga Engineering are manually operated and don’t require frequent maintenance. 

• Wheelbarrows, spades, shovels, trowels and wooden plank support. 
• Supply of cements and sand/soil required for the training and for the start up.
• A mature male Donkey
• A Donkey Cart
• 50 bags of cement