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By Awori Esther Lucy
Lira, 1st November 2019 – The call for Young adults to engage as innovators against poverty has been launched by CPAR Uganda.
The CPAR Uganda Managing Director M/s Norah Owaraga said the applications for receiving the first batch of 25 young adults to be trained is now opened.
“We, at CPAR Uganda, have set the dates for receiving our first cohort of 25 young adults for their first mentoring session with us. From 6th January to 1st February 2020 our first cohort will be in training, going through the first module of our programme: “Understanding Poverty in Rural Uganda, ” said Owaraga in a statement.
She said the sessions will be conducted at their Lira Learning Centre, located at Plot 5 Makerere Road, Lira Municipality, Lira District in Northern Uganda.
“The call is out for applications from young adults (persons aged 20-39 years) – including students at tertiary level formal education and those who have completed formal tertiary education who are employed, seeking employment or exploring self-employment,” she said. The deadline for applications is 22nd November 2019.
“The overall objective of our programme is to produce active Ugandan citizens who will proactively innovate, initiate, and facilitate processes that will lead to improving standards of living among the poor in Uganda and that will ameliorate deprivation in their communities.”
Owaraga said that CPAR in partnership with the GlobalGiving Foundation, through an on-going online fundraising campaign, had generated some funding to enable them to provide full or partial scholarships to young adults to participate in the programme.
Application forms are available to download from the CPAR website www.cparuganda.com; and from the Lira Learning Centre.
More About CPAR
CPAR Uganda has a proven record of over 27 years, first as a Country Programme of Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief and then as an independent Ugandan organisation, of contributing to improving the wellbeing of communities in Uganda.
In the past CPAR has through the provision of relief aid and lately, conducted training and mentoring.
Their current mission is to ensure that households in rural Uganda ably meet the basic needs of their members through enhanced livelihoods; access to health care, clean water, sufficient and nutritious food; in order that they lead healthy and dignified lives during which their rights are respected and their basic needs are met.
