Supervision of out-of-school girls.

In the Kabare Territory, the poverty that plagues the region no longer allows parents to pay for the education of all their children. Because of the very limited means, parents prefer to send boys to school to the detriment of girls. Girls are marginalized. There are a large number of girls who drop out of school. They are, in the long run, victims of poverty because they do not have the capacity to access gainful employment. They are discriminated against in society so that they even find it difficult to find a husband. In order to remedy this situation, the association: Solidarité Sociale pour le Développement et la Santé "SSDS" created a Learning Center for Cutting and Sewing Trades to enable 15 girls who dropped out of school to acquire cutting and sewing techniques. which will allow them access to income for their socio-economic empowerment and self-esteem in the community.

The Kabare Territory has an area of 1960 km² with an estimated population of 878,021 inhabitants according to the report of the Provincial Division of Health South Kivu published in October 2019. More than 65% of this population are women, with a rate of girls' schooling estimated at 38%, and 62% the percentage of dropouts in the rank of girls. These statistics reveal that 62% or 544,373 girls are not studying in Kabare. This justifies a very high rate of unemployment and poverty in the rank of women or girls in Kabare. The creation of a center for apprenticeship in cutting and sewing in the Irhambi-Katana grouping alleviates the suffering of girls in this region of Kabare.

The solution envisaged by SSDS is the creation of the Cutting and Sewing Learning Center where 15 girls who have dropped out of Irhambi-Katana in Kabare will come to learn the cutting and sewing trade for free for 6 months. After training, the 15 beneficiary girls will each receive a training certificate and a sewing machine for their social reintegration. The Center will continue to operate for the benefit of other vulnerable girls and women in Irhambi-Katana. The cost of the project is $ 10,000.

The direct beneficiaries of this project are 15 out-of-school girls from the Irhambi-Katana group. They are involved from the conception of this project, because this project is the fruit of exchanges between girls who have dropped out of school and the coordination of SSDS in Katana. During the execution of the project, they will also be involved with a view to better ownership of the project. This project will enable them to acquire cutting and sewing techniques which will enable them to practice the cutting and sewing profession on a daily basis. The income from this profession will allow them to meet their socio-economic needs and improve their living conditions. A sewing machine and its accessories will be given to each beneficiary after weaning from the Center.

This project offers girls who drop out of school better learning opportunities to earn a living. This project therefore aligns with the challenge of "How can marginalized girls and young women access quality learning opportunities to succeed?" "