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Skills Training

Targeted specifically towards urban and per-urban youth, the skills training program will teach the participants to effect life changing attitudes about their potential and responsibilities. The skills that will be taught will be unique and provide opportunities in and of themselves as well as significant crossover into other areas of work.

• Personal financial responsibility
• Personal moral responsibility
• Mastering basic business fundamentals
• Entrepreneurial skills and training
• Confidence to seek, and pursue, the dreams and ideas that God gives to each person
• Learning technical skills in glass blowing, etching, beadwork, torch work, slumping, i.e., glass arts

Existing skills programs in Swaziland concentrate on basic labor skills with no concept of market saturation and effective wage earning capability. They do teach a specific skill, but they do nothing to prepare the student for effectively implementing the skill in a successful business or making the most of the dreams and talent that God has given them.

The model we have chosen to follow regarding participants in the skills program differs slightly from other (and even some faith based) programs. Many programs require participants to pay for admission to the program. That does have the benefit of making someone sacrifice for entry into the program. However, in the context of Swaziland and the target group for the training, we believe that selection and admission should be based on attitude and seriousness regarding learning and personal advancement and responsibility. We can’t ask a child headed household to sacrifice money that would have been meant for school fees, food, or rent for participation in this program.

Kudvumisa Trust

Kudvumisa Trust was created to bring hope, to inspire and train the youth of this generation to develop and use the talents, skills, and dreams that the Creator has given them.

Ministry Vision

Kudvumisa Trust is committed to a long term investment into the lives of young people in Swaziland. Training young men and women in Godly, practical skills in life and in business thereby affording them the opportunity to break the cycle of poverty, and excel. This generation is the one to either make or break the fight against the HIV pandemic in southern Africa.

The primary challenges in Swaziland are:

• A culture that stifles innovation and creative thinking
• An education system that does not have the infrastructure or capital to educate the children through primary or secondary schools
• Rampant under and unemployment
• Children growing up lacking the moral and social knowledge and life skills normally passed on to children by parents because of the loss of all or nearly all family members to AIDS

In answer to this, a program whose goal is to help break the cycle of poverty and HIV is essential.

A faith based program in South Africa is called “Learn to Earn” with the motto “A hand up, not a handout.” These are ideas we would like to emulate here in Swaziland.