Welthungerhilfe Skill Up Project

In sub-Saharan Africa, there exists a situation where communities are handed free, well-equipped businesses and are provided with training, but still remain very poor and unemployed. The Skill Up! program in Zimbabwe offers around 500 young women and men, between the ages of 15 and 35, the opportunity to participate in a community-based apprenticeship designed to revive existing underutilised multiple-purpose water infrastructure in the community while creating jobs and building community social cohesion. It also focuses on character building to shape young people who can participate in environmental conservation, are inclined to make better food choices, and can resist negative peer pressure when it comes to harmful practices like drug and substance abuse.

Welthungerhilfe Skill Up Project Zimbabwe works by establishing a business model in partnership with a learning institution that is designed to stimulate demand for similar models throughout the community.