Over four hundred thousand students graduate from Uganda’s universities. They are left to scramble for only one hundred and fifty thousand jobs that are available annually. About 0.008% create their jobs. This leaves approximately 71.99% of Uganda’s graduates jobless in every year. That has left many to find for another solution that can help them generate an income. Some get into informal sectors, others start indulging into casual sex, others get into crimes and also into drugs so that they can survive. Legacy footfalls have, however, come to create one million jobs for Ugandan graduates.
’Legacy footfalls ‘ will be delivering ICT skilling and micro-business incubation program to six hundred and twenty-seven thousand graduates and nine hundred and sixty students in all one twenty-one districts in Uganda.
Program Host Organization for the One Million Jobs for the Uganda’s graduates
Legacy footfalls is an information and communication technology 4D nonprofit organization. It uses ICT to take away the critical skill challenge. Legacy gives poverty an expiration date for Africans and in Africa. Also, it boosts to creating a technology generation that is ahead.
It partners with community institutions like churches, schools, families. This way, it’s able to create a lasting and meaningful change for the lives of these isolated societies or communities in Africa. They equip the local teams through applied ICT to teach them, uncover their potential within them, challenging those teams to innovate solutions towards the social problems facing their communities.
The Challenges Facing One Million Jobs Project
According to the World Bank. 47.3% of Ugandan lives below the poverty line. Earning 2.40 dollars per day. Close to eighteen million and five hundred thousand Ugandans are vulnerable to poverty. This is as compared with 80%unemployed graduates. This further makes it part of the 50% of Africans who are jobless. The children born in a slum in Uganda are four times likely to be poor adults even after having their first degree.
The solution towards the one million jobs for UgandaNs graduate project
For sure, the communities are doing excellent work on wealth and job creation. They are in the first line in developing, deploying as well as exploiting the ICT within their communities and societies. A community that has the ability and capability to keep its socioeconomic developments, being able to gain competitive advantages highly depends on the far it can develop use it as well as sell it this information, technology, and knowledge in one way or another.
The project is estimated to give five high tech business incubations hubs per every district. Each hub will host two hundred and ten graduates and three hundred and twenty students. The hubs come in while fully installed and with operational tools. The center will give youths a safe learning arena that they can use to find solutions to the pressing issues of their communities, for example, water, diseases, sustainable housing, among others.
The Long Term Plans for the Project
As the program grows, the hubs will also grow and expand to ICT research Centre, incubating ICT solutions for Africa as a whole. They will mainly focus mostly on Data analysis, flexible production, and robotics integration.
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