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How you can help
The Hair Arts group is currently running a registered hair beauty school on voluntary and scholarship basis and has about 50 students taking certificate and diploma levels courses. However, the capacity of the school does not respond to the demand. The facilities and equipments of the school are limited and do not allow the center to sustain itself or to grow. According to the group, the standard of the curriculum is still low and they would benefit a lot from exchanging experiences and know-how with other schools, such as in Europe and America. In addition, there is a need for diversification of the training courses by including computer literacy.
Manyatta vocational training centre
With some external support the group hopes to turn their hair beauty project into a full institution offering training for all their young people in the area of hair and beauty therapy as well as other courses.
This would create training and job opportunity for many community members. The main target group consist of females desiring such a vocation in hair arts and beauty, but with special focus on the needy, the orphans and the widows in the context of H.I.V management.
However, to be sustainable in the long run, the institute also needs to formulate a business plan and define ways to generate revenues from the hair and beauty saloon. For this purpose the group seeks the help of the online Neighbours to provide them with ideas, know how and examples of successful vocational training institutes developed elsewhere and contribute towards defining the required steps, contacts and resources to get there.
Inputs needed/ What you can do to help
Equipments needed for the project (we need to raise 3,503 US Dollars for the equipments)
- Curricula and exchange know-how.
- Business plan for the institute, potentially including diversified courses.
- Ideas and suggestions for the building of their own institute.
- Advise on how to run the institute as a self-sustaining business, including advise on income generation and fundraising.
- Contacts with organizations who could support the community project.
- Professional volunteers on Hair an Beauty therapy would be welcome to participate in the project.
Do you feel like donating a few dollars or any of the equipment? Then contact me or the Manyatta