RESTORE 10 LADIES AFFECTED BY PROSTITUTION IN UGANDA, 2016
1. Project Summary
1.1 Project Description:
HSG Uganda is desirous of restoring 10 ladies affected by prostitution and human trafficking residing in Makindye and Kawempe Divisions Kampala, Uganda through tailoring and knitting skills development, and provision of an alternative source of income to the beneficiaries per year.
The project intends to acquire tailoring machines, train the beneficiaries, hire space as well as run a production unit which will majorly supply school uniforms, sweaters and party wears.
1.2 Requested Amount:
The total cost of the project is USD 15,430. The project implementation costs will mainly include;
i. Purchase of Tailoring Equipment and Machinery (USD 3,765) ii. Training and project management Expenses (USD 4,914) iii. Administrative, maintenance, Utility, materials expenses (USD 6,663)
Donation Options:
Table 1: Cost Summary of Capital Machinery and Equipment
# Description Units Unit Cost Total Cost
1 Industrial Over lock Machine 1 500 500
2 Electric sewing/straight stitch machine 5 150 750 3 Single station electric knitting Machines 5 203 1,015 4 Embroidery Machine 1 1350 1,350 5 Industrial steam Ironing Box 1 150 150 Sub Total Cost 3,765
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Table 1: Cost Summary of Training and Project Management Costs Unit Total # Description Units Cost Cost
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1 Project Management
1.1 Marketing, Sales & Project Manager (Monthly wage) 4 270 1,080
Training & Production supervisor and Project Assistant 1.2 4 270 1,080 (Monthly wage)
2 Training
2.1 Trainee Monthly Up Keep 10 41 410
2.2 Monthly Training and Orientation Fee 10 40 400
2.3 Rent 12 162 1,944 Sub Total Cost 4,914
Table 2: Cost Summary of Administrative, Utility, Maintenance and Material Costs # Description Units Unit cost Total cost 1 Power (monthly bills) 12 40 480 2 Water (monthly bills) 12 14 168 4 Communication per month 6 40 240 5 Stationary and Printing 1 120 120 6 Transport + Fuel 12 100 1200 7 Technician (monthly wage) 1 50 50 Spare parts after phase I of the project (percentage of 8 5% 193 193 total purchase cost the machines) 9 Material (Fabric, Thread, Yarn & other accessories) 12 351 4212 Sub Total Cost 6,663
1.4 Problem Statement:
Due to high levels of unemployment for the semi-skilled and now even graduates, domestic violence, political unrest, coercion and human trafficking, many girls and women without choice resort to commercial sex in Uganda. Accordingly, these girls and ladies are exposed to HIV/AIDS 1 and other STDs, violence, rape, abortion, human sacrifice, loss of human dignity. Some parents and spouses in Kampala suburbs are giving in their daughters and/or partners respectively for a pay or meet their essential needs – food, shelter, dressings and other schools.
1 According to AIDS……………. 2011 a total of 13000 people are infected by HIV through prostitution and 40 – 45% of prostitutes in Uganda are HIV positive.
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Skills development and provision of alternative sources of income is one of the interventions HSG Uganda has experimented which is able to restore lives of girls and ladies in this practice and also save our society of losing its productive age group.
1.5 Project Activities:
The project will entail purchase of tailoring machinery and equipment, recruitment of beneficiaries, training of 10 ladies with tailoring and entrepreneurship skills, provision of job opportunities, marketing of our products, generation of addition revenue for HSG Uganda as well as peer group outreaches to other victims of prostitution and human trafficking.
1.6 Long-term impact of the Project:
The project targets to equip the identified 10 ladies with tailoring and entrepreneurship skills, leadership skills and also provide employment opportunities. The project will therefore reduce prostitution by 10 ladies out of trade, provide income for the beneficiaries to meet their personal and family needs.
In addition, the beneficiaries will be engaged in peer counselling sessions and outreaches to other sex workers. Lastly the project will lay a foundation for further training of at least 10 ladies in other subsequent years since there are profits expected from this project.
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2. THE PROJECT OBJECTIVES
a) General Aim:
The overall aim of this project is to equip the beneficiaries with tailoring and knitting skills as well as provide a worthwhile and dignified form of employment and source of income to ladies affected by prostitution and human trafficking within Kampala, Uganda.
b) Specific Objectives:
i. To annually train and develop the skills of ten (10) beneficiaries in Fashion Design and in using sewing and knitting machines. ii. To provide employment opportunities to the trained beneficiaries. iii. To equip each beneficiary with other life and leadership skills to be able to reach out to other sex workers and participate in their rehabilitation process. iv. To generate revenue towards the operations and activities of HSG Uganda.
3. BRIEF ON HSG UGANDA
Help the Street Girl Uganda (HSG-U) is a registered Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO). The organisation was registered with the NGO Secretariat, Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2008. (Registration Number S.5914/7613)
HSG Uganda was established to respond to the plight and consequent suffering of the people especially women involved in prostitution. This suffering includes sexual exploitation and abuse, human/child trafficking. Many of the victims of prostitution also get infected with HIV/AIDS, become socially displaced and disoriented. Majority ultimately lose their self-esteem and dignity as human beings and in many other instances even their lives. This suffering is also coupled with other social downsides like the erosion of the marriage and family institutions.
The organisation was therefore started to help both women and men to better appreciate their gift of sexuality, and to restore people who had been
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RESTORE 10 LADIES AFFECTED BY PROSTITUTION IN UGANDA, 2016 sexually exploited as a result of their involvement in prostitution through Christian oriented rehabilitation, skills impartment and financial empowerment.
Objectively HSG Uganda works to offer spiritual and emotional support especially to girls and women who have been affected by sexual exploitation and abuse especially as a result of prostitution through availing them with guidance, counselling and rehabilitative care. The Organisation also works to ensure their financial empowerment by supporting them through various skills development and entrepreneurial training programs to become positively productive and contributing members of society and a force for social transformation. HSG Uganda also carries out various programs and initiatives to sensitise and raise awareness among its special interest groups like youth and to the whole mass about the faces, causes and dangers of prostitution and the sexually exploitative consumerist culture that’s prevailing today.
HSG operates in places where commercial sex work and human trafficking takes place (for example in night clubs and bars, discothèques, brothels, slums and streets) within Kampala District. The organisation mainly strives to reach out to girls and women between ages of 13 – 35, as this age group is most actively involved in the sex trade yet most productive when rehabilitated.
The organization’s offices and rehabilitation home are located at Kirinyabigo- Mutundwe, Kampala District.
Through its mission to restore the dignity, hope and freedom of those under the bondage of commercialised sex, human trafficking and other forms of sexual abuses, HSG Uganda exists to see a people set free from sexual exploitation and human trafficking by and through the radical love of God.
4. THE PROBLEM
While it’s commonly believed that girls and women involved in prostitution wilfully choose to get involved in the sex trade, this is absolutely opposing to the reality. Close interaction with and observation of many commercial sex workers and victims of human trafficking reveals that these girls and women
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Due to high levels of unemployment for the semi-skilled and now even graduates, domestic violence, political unrest, coercion and human trafficking, many girls and women without choice resort to commercial sex in Uganda. In addition, many girls are abducted and/or trafficked at a tender age while others lured under the pretext of getting them employment in urban centres from their rural homes only to be forced to prostitute themselves.
Accordingly, these girls and ladies are exposed to HIV/AIDS 2 and other STDs, violence, rape, abortion, human sacrifice, loss of human dignity. Some parents and spouses in Kampala suburbs are giving in their daughters and/or partners respectively for a pay or meet their essential needs – food, shelter, dressings and other schools.
Most of these women and girls also conceive and bare children out of prostitution. At times, this is also coupled with getting infected with HIV/AIDS. They then usually have to continue trading in order to take care and provide for their children and to also afford the expensive terminal treatments for HIV.
The children born and raised in and from such circumstances more often than usual never get apt parental attention, guidance, support and care. They, as a result, usually never go far with education and often become easy prey to and perpetrators of various forms of abuse and of early sex. They usually either eventually join the sex trade earlier on in life if they are girls or resort to more aggravated crime forms if boys.
Women, girls and the children caught up in the vicious cycle of commercial sex and human trafficking urgently need interventions to help them make meaning of life again. Holistic support that includes counselling and rehabilitative care; skills development, employment and employment creation support; social and spiritual reintegration and health care programmes is direly needed to put their lives in order again. With such support, the women and girls can break free from the degenerative and indignifying reality of the sex trade and human trafficking. For many, they
2 According to AIDS……………. 2011 a total of 13000 people are infected by HIV through prostitution and 40 – 45% of prostitutes in Uganda are HIV positive.
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5. JUSTIFICATION FOR THE PROJECT
The high unemployment rate3 coupled with other social difficulties including HIV/AIDS, political instabilities, domestic violence, families breakdowns and, limited government resources for training the youth, has paved way for drug abuse, gambling, rape and defilement, robbery, burglary, kidnap, prostitution, fraud and human sacrifice as a short-cut to wealth in Uganda4.
Consequently, many of the girls and women affected by these realities and after trying everything within their means, resort to working in bars and restaurants as barmaids and at the same time sell their bodies to bar customers, or deliberately move to the streets where they trade their bodies in exchange of money and other human needs including feeding, shelter, form of employment.
Through prostitution girls and ladies and their customers are exposed to many dangers including HIV/AIDS 5 and other STDs, violence, rape, abortion, witchcraft and human sacrifice, loss of human dignity, human tracking. The practise also leads to other challenges that affect the community at large including moral decadency, increased crimes, and erosion of the family institution.
Our interactions with local leaders and prostitutes reveals that some parents and husbands in Kampala suburbs (Katwe, Bwaise, Kamwokya, Banda, Makindye – Nsambya, Makerere Kivulu, Ndeba and Nateete) are giving in their daughters and/or partners respectively for a pay or meet their essential needs – food, shelter, dressings and other schools.
3 According to the 2006 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey, over 52% of Uganda’s population is below the age of 15 years, meaning the productive population is 48%, which means a large dependency ratio vis-à-vis the country’s lower economic growth rate (approximated at 6.5% for over a decade).The Ministry of Public Service asserts that the unemployment rate in Uganda stands at 3.2% annually while that of the youth is at 22.3%. In Kampala, the youth unemployment rate is at 32.2%, while among university graduates, the unemployment rate is 36%. The country’s labour force can only accommodate 50% of university graduates. 4 According to the Uganda police crime reports (2008 & 2009), unemployed male youth rank as the top crime convicts and suspects, followed by women aged 20-35 years. 5 According to AIDS……………. 2011 a total of 13000 people are infected by HIV through prostitution and 40 – 45% of prostitutes in Uganda are HIV positive.
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Unless serious interventions to reduce or completely mitigate the factors that lead these ladies into prostitution are put in place, the nation is at a risk of losing its productive age group as well as the family institutions. The situation not only exposes the victims to HIV/AIDS, but also destroys their dignity and life and consequently the image of the society.
Economic Justification:
Uganda has one of the highest population growth rate estimated at 3.4%, and with the youngest population in the world. Currently the country depends on a network of 16,600 Primary schools and 2,900 Secondary schools (National Development plan 2010/11 – 2014/15).
This provides the project market opportunity for the project’s products given the fact that most of these schools (70%) depend on sweaters and uniforms supplied locally. It is important to note that very few producers (who are financially sound) use highly sophisticated technology to produce these products. In fact 1st class schools import their uniforms and sweater from Kenya. Positioning ourselves with industrial machines would give the project a competitive position in the market.
The project’s initial marketing strategy is to target faith based schools and public schools whose Directors and Proprietors have a working relationship with HSG Uganda. As the project grows, other schools will be identified and supplied. In fact we are currently supplying some orders to one school where our beneficiaries (children) are studying from.
6. PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
HSG Uganda is desirous of restoring 10 prostitutes through tailoring skills development and provision of employment and incomes sources in order to address the problem of lack of worthwhile employment and household income sources for the girls and women forced into commercial sex.
Through this project the beneficiaries will be trained in fashion, design and tailoring skills to produce products such as school and other institutional uniforms, designer clothes, outfits and accessories like bags for both the local and international markets.
The staff of HSG Uganda will carry out the selection of the beneficiaries to join the project, train beneficiaries, marketing and sales of the products
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The Project will impart tailoring and knitting skills to our beneficiaries, entrepreneurship and business management skills as well as support tips that will enable them reach out to other ladies in the trade during the implementation process. The training
The projected will be actualized through four major work phases namely: A pre-project phase during which funds for the implementation of the Projects will be mobilised and three other implementation phases. The implementation will include Four months of life-support divided into an inception phase of two months during which capital machinery and the operational premises will be purchased, rented and prepared respectively. Also during this inception the first ten beneficiaries will be selected and their training will commence and Project management team will also prepare and design all relevant project management systems, marketing and sales material. Completion of the orientation and training of the beneficiaries, commencement of production and the securing of work contracts will then take place in the last two months that will comprise the work support and implementation phase. The project will finally proceed to the self- sustenance and growth level and phase where proceeds of the project will be used to sustain its operation and to orient and train other women to join the unit.
Table 3: Project Implementation Plan
Responsible Person June July Aug Sept Oct. 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 Pre Project Phase 1.1 Mobilization and acquisition HSG Resource Mobilization of funds Team Inception Phase 2.1 Purchase of Machines and HSG Projects Coordinator raw materials 2.2 Acquisition of Premises HSG Projects Coordinator 2.3 Selection Of 1st Lot of HSG Skills Development Women Beneficiaries and Team Project management Team 2.4 Training And Orientation Of External Trainers & HSG 1st Lot of Women Beneficiaries Skills Development Team 2.5 Securing of Work contracts Project Mgt. Team, Project from prospective Customers and Coordinator & Resource Partners Mobilization Team Implementation & Work- support Phase 3.1 Commencement of Women Beneficiaries and Production, sales and Shipment Project Management Team
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Self-sustenance & Growth Level and Phase 3.2 Identification, Training and Project Management Team Orientation of 2nd lot of women and HSG skills Beneficiaries Development Team
Through this intervention HSG Uganda will also generate revenue to facilitate its activities and operations including rehabilitation, skills development and education of more sex workers and their children; organising and carrying out prostitute-peer out-reach programs; awareness raising and sensitisation of the masses and special interest groups and to organise entrepreneurship.
As a way to address the problem of prostitution and its effects to the communities and society, this project will in the long run encourage more women involved in prostitution to abandon it as it will offer an alternative to empower them economically in order to earn worthwhile and dignified incomes.
It will ultimately be a tool for the restoration of dignity, hope and freedom of those under the bondage of prostitution by way of providing sustainable employment opportunities for our beneficiaries and building a future for children born out of prostitution.
7. PROJECT ACTIVITIES
The project will comprise the following major activities;
1. Selection and Training of ten (10) beneficiaries in skills of using the machines, fashion and design, sewing, knitting, and entrepreneurial and leadership skills; 2. Purchase 5 Industrial sewing machines, 5 knitting machines, and an industrial over lock machine, Industrial embroidery machine, Identification and preparation of the project. 3. Design and development of project management tools and marketing material, Identifying customers particularly primary and secondary schools, local institutions, organisations and companies using the existing market network. 4. Support the project beneficiaries with other livelihood needs and support e.g. instance paying school fees for children using the proceeds of the project; Recruit and train ten (10) new beneficiaries at the end of one year. 5. Manage the day to day business of the Tailoring Unit.
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8. EXPECTED BENEFITS OF THE PROJECT
At the end of the 1st year of the project the following achievement will be attained;
a) Creation of employment opportunities for 10 women previously involved in the Sex Trade. b) Improvement in the living standard of the beneficiaries as result of increased income and better living standard. c) Creation of other opportunities – training and employment in tailoring and entrepreneurship skills for at least ten (10) other beneficiaries d) Reduction of prostitution in the community. e) The promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women as key elements in advancing social and economic progress. f) Education opportunities for the children of the beneficiaries from revenues of the project. g) Moral rehabilitation of women affected by prostitution. h) Generate resources that would facilitate more outreaches to the streets and brothels with the aim of reducing incidences of prostitution in the community. i) Reduction of HIV/AIDS prevalence in the society, hence contributing to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals of reduction of HIV/AIDS prevalence in the society, reduction of poverty levels; reduction of illiteracy levels; and empowerment of women
9. COST SUMMARY
The project implementation costs will mainly include expenses for purchasing the capital equipment and Machinery for the tailoring, knitting and fashion work. They will also include administrative, training, maintenance and other utility expenses that will be incurred during the project life cycle. Table 2, 3, 4 show the cost summary of the Capital Machinery, a breakdown of the Training, Administrative, labour, maintenance and Utility expenses and the Cost Summary of Training and Project Management Costs. However, it expected that after six (6) months of project implementation, the project will generate revenues which will enable the project to meet some of the operation costs, and also provide resources that will run the subsequent years.
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Table 2: Cost Summary of Capital Machinery and Equipment
# Description Units Unit Cost Total Cost
1 Industrial Over lock Machine 1 500 500
2 Electric sewing/straight stitch machine 5 150 750 3 Single station electric knitting Machines 5 203 1,015 4 Embroidery Machine 1 1350 1,350 5 Industrial steam Ironing Box 1 150 150 Sub Total Cost 3,765
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Table3: Cost Summary of Training and Project Management Costs Unit Total # Description Units Cost Cost
1 Project Management
1.1 Marketing, Sales & Project Manager (Monthly wage) 4 270 1,080
Training & Production supervisor and Project Assistant 1.2 4 270 1,080 (Monthly wage)
2 Training
2.1 Trainee Monthly Up Keep 10 41 410
2.2 Monthly Training and Orientation Fee 10 40 400
2.3 Rent 12 162 1,944 Sub Total Cost 4,914
Table 4: Cost Summary of Administrative, Utility, Maintenance and Material Costs # Description Units Unit cost Total cost 1 Power (monthly bills) 12 40 480 2 Water (monthly bills) 12 14 168 4 Communication per month 6 40 240 5 Stationary and Printing 1 120 120 6 Transport + Fuel 12 100 1200 7 Technician (monthly wage) 1 50 50 Spare parts after phase I of the project (percentage of 8 5% 193 193 total purchase cost the machines) 9 Material (Fabric, Thread, Yarn & other accessories) 12 351 4212 Sub Total Cost 6,663
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