The Tailoring Project Report

Our Vision: A community where people (youths, women, children, and older adults) are participating and benefiting actively and meaningfully in development of their immediate and wider communities to achieve their full potential and better standards of living.

Our Mission: At our core, we focus on pursuing projects that represent sustainability of communities in terms of their environmental and their social impacts. We firmly believe that our cause will ensure sustainability and inspire a new generation of change makers.

Background

In line with our vision and the mission, in October 2022 we identified a community problem that was because of the Covid19 pandemic. We realised that we had many young mothers who got pregnant during the pandemic and eventually dropped out of school. We did research and found that even the fathers of their children were young men who were not able to take responsibility of a family, this made these young girls vulnerable to community judgement, bullying, and violence from their parents.

We, therefore, contacted Lisa Nichols to help us start a GoFundMe campaign to raise $5500, and in November 2022 we started a campaign where we raised $3530.

With the money we procured 10 manual sewing machines, hired a professional seamstress to train the women, rented a space for training, bought training materials, paid bills for electricity among other costs, this happened over a period of six months.

Results and way forward

Through your support we were able to train five young mothers and one young adult male: Najjemba Catherine 19, Masitulla Nakiwala 20, Nakayemba Moreen 17, Naiga Saudah 18, Namanda Esther 18, and Lubega Derick 19.

They learned a new skill and learned about the latest fashions through research. Four students bought their own manual sewing machines and two are using our machines since we do not have any new students starting their training. In addition, we taught them to work as a team, look for contracts from different schools, and on September 6th, 2023, they received their first contract from Kabanda Primary School to make over eighty (80) school uniforms. They earned close to two million Ugandan Shillings ($550). They are now applying for other contracts from secondary schools.

We believe that the project will sustain itself if we can train nine more young mothers making a total of 15 trained students, Prime Community Outreach plans to form an association and help them look for more contracts from schools deducting a percentage to be used to maintain the ongoing tailoring project.

Our call

Last year’s fundraiser did not hit the target goal of $5500, we are at $3530 with a balance of $1970.

We wanted to share with you that when the program started, we received over thirty (30) young women who wanted to participate in the project, and we could only choose six (6) students.

We therefore kindly request that you consider helping us to raise the remaining $1970, every little bit counts, to support more young women and reach our fundraising target and beyond. Your kind support through the festive season is enough to help us start training early next year, January 2024.