MENGO VOCATIONAL YOUTH CENTRE

INSTITUTE BACKGROUND

Mengo vocational youth centre is a skills competence based training institution located along Hoima road, 9km from Kampala, Kayunga trading center, Wakiso town council, Wakiso district. It was established in 2011 as a community based training centre mainly to train skills to all kinds of youths most especially vulnerable, school dropouts and teenage mothers with in Wakiso district but in particular Wakiso town council.

In 2014 Mengo vocational youth centre transformed into a technical and vocational institute that aims at transforming youths through practical skills to reduce the increasing unemployment levels in Uganda. We engage our students in hands on skills, talent development in sports, music dance and drama, entrepreneurship through business practical trainings, business development and mentorship. By doing so, we professionalize their initiatives to sustain their livelihoods. We use inspirational and motivational talks from successful entrepreneurs, employment and business experts to inspire them to be able to develop their skills. They are encouraged to start-up with the little they can get for sustainability.

With our unique approach to vocational and technical skills trainings, we bring together change agents and well-wishers from all sectors with talents and abilities enabling to create more jobs and employment opportunities.

We provide mentorship and internship programs to unemployed youth from different companies/NGOs. These are trained in different skills and we assist them to start up their own initiatives. We also act as a source of information, monitoring, mentoring and coaching, capacity building and participation in different community initiatives to improve the wellbeing of youth in their communities.

Our students are assessed by directorate of industrial training (DIT), Uganda business and technical examination board (UBTEB) and Islamic university in Uganda (IUIU)

OUR VISION

To be the leading competence based training institution and realizing ideas for sustainable development among youth.

OUR MISSION

Curbing the level of unemployment among the youths through vocational skills training and promoting ethical behaviors.

OBJECTIVE

• To provide support to vulnerable adolescents, teenage mothers, youths and children to increase their opportunities for learning.
• To strengthen the capacity of youth to eliminate teenage pregnancies and early marriages.
• To train youths in vocational employability and entrepreneurship skills to enable them innovate and professionalize their initiatives.
• To provide young entrepreneurs with training skills and mentoring them to manage their innovations better.
• To network with different stakeholders for internship and volunteering opportunities for youths.

CORE VALUES

• Excellence in skills development performance.
• Equal opportunities for all.
• Integrity and ethical behaviors.
• Efficiency and effectiveness.
• Customer care and respect for all.
• God fearing.
• Transparency and accountability.

GOAL

To foster competence based employability skills training and entrepreneurship, ethical behaviors to youth due to their vulnerability.

To raise awareness of skills, talent and career opportunities to the development of their communities.