"One way to aid re-integration," explains Gillian Slinger, co-ordinator of UNFPA's Campaign to End Fistula, "is to equip the recovering patient with the income generating skills to gain socio-economic security and empowerment".
With the help of UNICEF and the Ministry of Education, each district identifies local artists who take in the young people as apprentices and provide them with future income generating skills in areas such as baking, mechanics, tailoring, etc.
It has never done much to create jobs or generate skills (beyond standard mining employment) in diamond-producing countries, but it delivered big and stable revenues for their governments.
While developing income generating skills is critical to moving along a path to self-reliance, we must also recognize the steps women need to take to regain self-confidence, to find their voice, to realize their own power.
Working with vulnerable women infected with HIV/AIDS and their children, HEART provides medical care, nutrition, shelter, access to ART (Anti-Retro Virus Therapy) psychosocial, protection, income generating skills and educational support to their children for HIV positive mothers who have been widowed or abandoned.
They were eager to acquire income generating skills to improve their family's economic conditions.
Diverging learning style is associated with value generating skills: building relationships, helping others and sense making (reasoning).
While consensus opinion confirmed project purposes well aligned to stakeholders, both implied and expressed concerns suggested the scope should be broadened, for learners 15-20, to include a curriculum equivalent to grade 5 to support their "right age" entry to grade 6 and for those above age of 25 and married, to include rudimentary income generating skills.
But you'd have to be lacking in taste, indeed lacking in everything not to savour this short, sharp showcase of voice-throwing, mirth-generating skill.
Writing is a skill that generates other skills.
