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Community members drilled in tailoring

We Can Make it Again, a non-governmental organisation, is training girls, women and boys in Dowa in tailoring and designing.

In an interview, the organisation’s founder Rosten Pwando said he came up with the initiative to help underprivileged community members to attain skills to enable them become financially independent.

Women learn how to sew clothes

“When girls and women become economically independent, they cannot indulge in risky behaviour to get money,” he said.

Pwando said they deal with single mothers, orphans and widows because they face challenges in their lives.

“We tell them that they can make it in life despite the challenges,” he said.

One of the beneficiaries, Black Ntawigane said he gained skills in tailoring and designing.

“I have now teamed up with friends to open a shop where we design and sew different kinds of clothes, including wedding suits, engagement clothes and church choir uniforms,” he said.

Another beneficiary, Blandine Lili Lokendo, is waiting for a donation  of a sewing machine from well-wishers to start her own business.

“I believe operating my own business will change my financial status,” she said.

The training takes six months to complete.

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