Bidibidi is the
largest Refugee Settlement Camp in Uganda and the second largest in the world,
with a population of 287,087 covering 250 square kilometres.Addition to
that Uganda has an 83% youth unemployment rate. Many refugees are passively
waiting for resettlement in the global north. “In Bidi Bidi, refugees
reported poor quality teaching, a lack of essential classroom materials and
severe teacher shortages. There is no vocational school in the settlement and
limited opportunities for secondary or higher education. SINA Loketa meets
these challenges head-on. It works with both refugee and host community youth
to create their employment opportunities and found social enterprises that
solve problems in Bidi Bidi and beyond.”
UNHCR (justification for Innovation
Award)’’. ‘‘Vocational training is considered as a key factor for local
integration and socio-economic development of the youth. It also prevents youth
from leaving to South-Sudan and from engaging in bad practices’’. See: (https://www.unhcr.org/innovation/a-local-people-centered-approach-to-experimentation/).
SNIA LOKETA
(SINAL) is a self-organized learning space environment in Bidibidi that builds
on capacities of young people to become self-actualized and job creators in
their communities through social entrepreneurship and connectivity. In SINAL each scholar chooses from our core track areas and gets access to tools that
they use to make and develop their ideas through Project-Based Learning and
hands-on experimentation. The scholars are matched with mentors and keep
testing ideas and making mistakes until they become social change-makers and
living with their own social ventures created thus creating their own jobs and
solving societal and/or environmental problems in their communities.
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