Mend the Broken Hearts Uganda provides vocational training support for a small number of young people. Some of these have left school and are without a completed course which can bring them to work. With a short professional education such as driver, hairdresser, mechanic or other craftsman get the job opportunities and can move on in their lives. Others are students who have the opportunity to take higher education. They are those who show a special commitment and have good abilities. For example, These include education in trade and business, business management or health – some even at the academic level.

The Self-Help Support Association in Uganda supports vocational education for young people. In 2017, with the start-up capital from the Support Association, a pool was established from which vulnerable young people from the focus area in southwestern Uganda can borrow money for an education. From the pool, loans can be provided for short practical vocational training programs for vulnerable youngsters who have dropped out of school and have difficulty in re-enrolling, as well as higher education for promising students whose parents or guardians cannot afford to pay for the education. self. It is a prerequisite for getting a loan that the amount borrowed and a small interest is repaid to the pool, so that the money can be loaned out to other vulnerable young people, who are thus also given the opportunity for an education. The loan is expected to be repaid in installments over 3-4 years after graduation, and the goal is for the scheme to become self-driving over time, so that a lot of young Ugandans can benefit from the money in the pool to get education and thereby jobs. Through education, young people are given invaluable resources, which will bring about a significant and extremely important capacity building of the poor rural communities.

In 2017, the educational pool received DKK 53,000 from the Support Association for self-help in Uganda, of which DKK 20,000 came from a grant for the purpose of the Employees’ Honorary Fund in the Novo Group. In 2018, an additional DKK 61,300 was added and in 2019 DKK 25,300, so that the pool was fully structured to provide the loan amounts to the first 23 young people who were granted loans for two- and three-year programs. Seventeen of these were in two-year programs and were thus graduated as masons, electricians, mechanics, hairdressers, farmers, bookkeepers and in corporate management by the end of 2018. Job clarification and repayment are awaited before new loans from the pool are granted.

Other Mend the Broken Hearts Uganda offerings for adults, which will enhance their ability to nourish themselves and their families, include reading and writing courses for illiterates as well as various vocational courses targeted at young adults such as the organization’s own art school in Kabale and the carpenter project .

Many of the people who are supported with supported education do concurrent and subsequent important work for Mend the Broken Hearts Uganda, for example. by teaching and otherwise helping others with their acquired skills. A good example is a young girl who has borrowed for a training as a laborer and now works in a hospital. With her professional skills, she provides a great help at the organization’s orphanage in Mbarara, where she was raised herself. She has also repaid the loan to the orphanage where the money went to other people’s education. In this specific case, the money for the education loan came from a special grant from the Employees’ Honors Fund in the Novo Group.