Our Skills Shaping Youth Innovations
In 2024, Uganda’s youth unemployment rate was estimated to be around 16% and 72.3% of Uganda’s population was aged 30 and under, which is over 33 million people. This makes Uganda a youthful country. The 2024 National Population and Housing Census report says “Among the Ugandan youth aged 18 – 30 years in 2024, 35% were no longer in school and were in employment, while 12% were still in school and about 51% were neither in employment nor education training.
Young people with some education are more likely to be unemployed because formal sector jobs pay more but are harder to find. Young people in Uganda often feel that policymakers don’t pay attention to their concerns. Many young people in Uganda only think about white-collar jobs and government salaries.
The opportunity
Habitation for Empowerment Network trains youth with practical skills in all sectors to innovate and startup new initiatives. Getting our youth to work is a process they have embraced with the acquiring of new skills. As an organization, we have trained 168 youth that are living in the suburbs of Masese landing site to use the available resources they have in their community to uplift themselves and their fellow youth. The youth were grouped so that they can work together to grow one startup at a time hence starting up probable and promising 7 startups being chosen by the youth themselves. See how it happened;
We call upon the different NGOs and CBOs, to partner with us and we skill the youth to startup their own initiatives to become self-employed. We are building the next generation that is powerful, mindful and respectful to bring about social and economic development within their communities.