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Youth Resource Centre and Vocational Training as a promotion of Peace

Youth Resource Centre aims to provide a range of support services and structured programs for young people aged between 15-35 years and their families. HAPEN provides access to information and interaction among peers across all youth age groups, gives resources including
computers, educative visual equipment, literature, indoors, and outdoors sports and games. Some of the activities that will take place in the resource center are information, communication, and education on health and other key issues that affect the youth. These are done through providing a conducive and youth-friendly environment where the youths can interact, relax, learn, and innovate, while at the same time receive referral services by the providers on health matters. To empower youth and women improve their livelihood through skills training as income
generation, HAPEN seeks to;

  • Establish vocational training centers for hopeless youth to empower them earn their livings through the skills gained.
  • Support activities aimed at improving employment opportunities for trained graduates
  • Put in places mechanisms that will improve the future sustainability of vocational training centers
  • Improve linkage with other Skills/ Vocational training Centers for cross-learning and experience sharing
  • Combating exploitive child labor, human trafficking, and conflict through programs to improve economic opportunities through literacy and job skills training.
  • Supporting alternative and transitional education programs that address illiteracy and innumeracy through accelerated learning principles, partnered with practical job skills, leadership and life skills curricula to assist students’ transition to more formal learning opportunities or gainful employment
  • Developing customized internship and mentoring programs to ensure that the trainee has continued support while adapting to new work or educational environment
Horn of Africa Peace Network - HAPEN