Youth Empowerment & Rehabilitation Projects (YERP) Uganda

Youth Empowerment & Rehabilitation Projects is a registered and recognised non governmental community based Organisation found in Mbarara South Western Region of Uganda - East Africa. This Organization was founded in 2010 by a group of Christian youth with a great need and calling help restore hope and a bright future for the vulnerable youth & children in Uganda who have lost hope for life due to death of their parents caused by the prevalence of HIV/AIDS and civil wars. To rehabilitate those who have adopted weird behaviour like drug abuse, prostitution, alcoholism to an extent that they have been rejected by the societies. Basic school education and vocational training, good nutrition and health care are to be offered to these youth & Children accompanied with spiritual counselling and rehabilitation programs .

To cater for the vulnerable youth and children including; youth with disabilities, orphans, needy, street kids and young girls whose rights have been abused by being forced into early marriage due to their parents' failure to support them in education. YERP- UGANDA needs to empower them to advocate for their rights by supporting them in education with basic educational necessities that include ,books pens uniform and school fees to reduce the alarming number of school dropouts due to mere lack of basic educational necessities .

Enabling the Youth to exhibit full use of human resources and skills and become agents of desirable change in the society rather than passive recipients in development.

TARGET GROUP

For every academic year, statistics show that every 100 children who enroll in primary one under the Universal Primary Education Program, Only 39 of them manage to reach primary 5, of these, 19 are girls and 20 are boys. These pupils normally drop out of school with no help and hope to continue with their education. Some of these children have ended up on streets looking for petty jobs, others especially girls have been married off at an early age. Our target is mainly to engage this group of youth to become agents of change in the society rather than passive recipients in Development, through sensitization, support them further their education, skill training and development and to strengthen their awareness of their own potential power to control their lives.

PROJECT GOAL

The main goal of this project is to restore hope and a bright future of our youth by creating a wide and open opportunity to strengthen their awareness of their own potential power through small scale business and support them in Education to spawn and promote their lives.

PROJECT VISION

To enable the youth not only to understand their rights in gaining access to needed services, but get them involved in providing needed services.

.Our target is mainly to engage the youth to become agents of change in the society rather than passive recipients in Development, through sensitization, support them further their education, skill training and development and to strengthen their awareness of their own potential power to control their lives.