Tanzania, Bugene, Karagwe-Kagera: BUSHANGARO COMMUNITY POVERTY ALLEVIATION (BCPA)

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Bushangaro Community Poverty Alleviation-(BCPA) has been working with the people especially marginalized out of school vulnerable youth, orphan girls and women/widows who have been affected by HIV/AIDS through target group approach.Accordingly,first,it organizes the distress and powerless women and girls into homogeneous group for their development through motivation, awareness building and education.Secondly,BCPA empowers marginalized out of school vulnerable youth, orphan girls and women/widows through training and sharing of experience.Finally,BCPA facilitates in initiation of economic activities by micro-credit support for regular income to alleviate poverty and promoting women’s economic rights and control over resources through active involvement and participation.
 
Project goal:
The primary goal of Bushangaro Community Poverty Alleviation is to provide literacy and marketable vocational training to the marginalized and underprivileged out of school youth/children in Karagwe district giving them an opportunity to steer their lives towards a more promising future by making them economically independent.

Objectives:
(i).Identifying and training 90 out of school marginalized youths/children to provide them with the necessary skills to be involved in economic activity. A special emphasis will be put upon adolescents and young female’s heads of household.
(ii).Provide practical skill development training on information and communication technology (ICT).
(iii).Promoting organization and community participation among the group of women to encourage them to initiate collective planning for micro-business management.
(iv).Have access to HIV/AIDS resources.
 
Benefits to the local communities:
Since empowerment of marginalized youth/children is a crucial pre-requisite for sustainable development in many development countries, “information and communication technology” is considered as one of the most powerful weapon in the empower process. The project will benefit these youths/children, which will generate acceptable investment returns through their active participation in the workplace. It will benefit them in learning different new skills and providing a range of new employment opportunities previously unavailable to them. The intensive program will enable them to acquire applicable skills to advance economically and compete professionally in today’s economy.Karagwe district will also benefit  through having a vocational training centre that will continue to support community needs in the area hence reducing the level of poverty.