VHC Skills Development Centre

The VHC Skills Development Centre provides Ugandan girls with vocational skills including tailoring, hairdressing, knitting, plumbing, computing, motor vehicle mechanics, and electrical installation.

Classes run for eight hours in a day at VHC and take place over a period of two years to prepare students for the Directorate of Industrial Training formal examinations.

Success stories:

Five students currently work at a garage, earning money as they learn auto repairs skills in the motor vehicle mechanics course.. They learn how to adjust engines timing, change wheel bearings, replace brake pads, service engine and cooling systems, and conduct basic auto maintenance. These girls have changed community attitudes towards such courses, which people had deemed to be for exclusively males.

Nine girls from our program recently sat for their DIT National exams in June/2018; one of our graduates, Jalia, has been contracted by the area Member of Parliament to train a group of sixty women in hairdressing techniques. In Kibengo, a team of four hairdressing VHC girls (Justine, Janat, Rebecca, and Jalia) were hired to do hairstyles for a wedding, which highly increased their appreciation for the course and improved their confidence. Our community brings clothes for our tailoring students to sew, and local women entrust our hairstyling students with plating, relaxing, dying, styling, their hair.

Mulungi Rebecca, a hairdressing student says,” “I thank God for VHC.  They took me from being a mere house maid to now a hairdresser.  I can now make a better wage – 3,0000 UGX for plaiting hair.”

Impact on the community:

Our vocational training program has greatly contributed to changing the attitudes of people in the community, as well as benefiting the girls by increasing their skill set, self-esteem, and ability to earn a living. The community sees that girls, whom they had previously lost hope in, are positively engaged in work. These girls who were once abused both sexually and physically, victims of early pregnancies and marriages, or who originate from poorest backgrounds, by acquiring new vocational skills, are now contributing members of our community.

For more information on how to enroll, please contact us by telephone at  0704 440671 / 0778 081 506 / 0779 438 183 or by email at voluntaryheartscommunitygc@gmail.com