Youth Employment and Economic Growth through Vocational Training Centres

Stimulating economic growth to eradicate global poverty has for decades been approached with attempts to link traditional markets to the global economic mainstream. Billions of dollars have been invested in hard infrastructure,modern economic activities and trade agreements that meet industrialized market needs,which inevitably only furthers the divide between the have and have-nots.

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Closing Time

2.5 weeks to go on my internship in Kenya! To be honest,I’m quite ready to go home to Christmas,my fiance,family,etc. It’s been a very challenging,but rewarding 8 months and I’m just physically and emotionally exhausted and ready for some r and r over Christmas before stressing too much about the [...]

Reflections on the Challenges of Reaching ‘Real’ Target Groups

As I enter my final month of my internship with HELP-SL,it is natural that I am reflecting on what I’ve achieved in the past six months,and how it fits into the greater body of work I’ve amassed in my short career in community work. Today,I am specifically thinking about the challenges I’ve [...]

Digging In:Seeing a ‘Successful’ Project from the Clients’ Point of View

HELP-SL began the Linking Youth with Knowledge and Opportunities in Micro Finance (LYKOM) project in 2009,with the support of UNDP. I have seen that project has garnered great successes and provided immense learning opportunities,both for the communities it served and for HELP-SL as an organization. I also know that my Street Kids [...]