Education of girls is essential in the drive by nations to achieve development goals.
Despite this fact, the girl child is often perceived and treated as inferior and has been socialized to put their needs second after everyone’s thus undermining their self-esteem.
Many girls hardly get the relevant type of education that would make them overcome the social, cultural and health challenges.
As a result many girls end up dropping out of school for a number of reasons. To empower such girls so as to attain knowledge and skills that help them make a change in their life, KMET came up with SFC (Sisterhood For Change) program.
The SFC program empowers girls to attain knowledge and skills that will improve their economic independence and soundness.
The goal of SFC is to increase access to livelihood opportunities and sexual reproductive health information/services to adolescent girls and young women from poor backgrounds. Participants are trained in vocational, reproductive health or life skills besides hairdressing, dress making and food and beverage courses.
For those who wish to enroll and have children; no need to worry because KMET has also established a daycare facility to take care for the little ones as their mothers learn.
SFC works with a range of stakeholders into meeting some of its objectives. These includes the police, Government ministries, local administrators, community leaders, religious leaders, parents whose mandate is to provide ongoing support, guidance, contribute to the growth of the program and feedback to the KMET management on how best to improve quality of services offered at SFC. This forms a committee named the Youth Advisory Committee (YAC).
In addition, KMET offers referral sites on health related matters affecting the adolescent girls at SFC to bring in positive health seeking behavior among the adolescents and young women to reduce the social and structural factors that contribute to HIV vulnerability.
Once the participant is through with Vocational training they are placed in a 3-month internship, where they develop their vocational skills.
Food and Beverage (6months)
Hairdressing Beauty Therapy (6months)
Dress making (one year).
The courses run for six months apart from the Tailoring course that runs for one year.
Intake is ongoing. If you wish to enroll please contact:
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