Sharonica Garments Centre and Technical Services, a Beacon to curb unemployment among the youth in Northern Uganda

BY AMBROSE OGWANG   

LIRA, UGANDA ; THE LUO NATIVE/ Sharonic Garments center and Technical Services, a professional skilling hub improving the livelihood of the youth in the formally War tone Northern Uganda.

Located at Blue Cell, Blue Corner Ward, West division of the Lira City Sharonica Garments Centre and Technical Services has addressed previously alarming concern of unemployment among the youth, through providing skilled training in not only usual tailoring but fashion and designed.

Internationally recognized and fully accredited by the Directorate of Industrial Training of Uganda, the institution has moved extra miles in providing technical skills and many of trained personnel are now working in powerful industries like textile, shoemaking while some are engaged in self-employed and earning big.

Recently, the institution founded by Sharon Ekit, passed out 82 youth upon the completion of their certificates in DIT Level One, Level Two and Three, a testament the institution is dedicated to significantly improve the standards of living and the livelihood of the young population in the region.

In addition to providing the technical skills, it has offered a wide range of the job opportunity to the people in the region, a significant achievement worth celebrating.

Among the youth that graduated with certificates included the victims of child-marriages, former LRA abductees and teenage pregnancy from across northern Uganda who acquired quality skills in fashion design at a very affordable fees.

Many graduates who spoke to The Luo Native news online expressed their excitement saying the skills they have acquired will go a long way in providing job opportunities to their peer and earning to themselves, hence self-reliance.

“Sharonica Garments Centre and Technical Services  is a God-given opportunity to me, the skills it imparted to me has really change my life as  I can now provide others with job, earn living and I have now joined the money economy,’’ a female graduate attested.

Likewise to the parents, some coming from Gulu, Pader, Agago, Abim, Lamwo in Acholi sub region and Lango, said they after acquiring the skills from Sharonica Garmens  in Lira, the burden on them have been drastically reduced since their children are now able to provide for themselves.

Speaking to this publication, the Executive Director of Sharonica Garment and Tailoring Centre, Sharon Ekit, applauded parents for entrusting her with children saying vocational skilling is the only pathway to success.

She encourage parents and guardians to embrace vocational education and send more children to acquire skills at fairly cheaper rate at the Centre, whose vision is to usher the into money economy and to enable the fortunate rediscover their opportunities.

Ekit appealed to the government to invest the private non-for profit skilling institutions like Sharonica to enhance the capacity of such institutions to impart skills in more youth to curb the rampant unemployment in the region and the country at large.