**AYOWECCA UGANDA’s** wide range of programs provide support in some of the poorest and most underprivileged communities in Uganda, East Africa. Since AYOWECCA UGANDA is community founded, our activities are community based to benefit the local people facing both social and environmental challenges. In addition to our agroforestry work, we are opening a skills training center for women and girls, and also young people, that will include Web3 onboarding and computer literacy as well as training for tailoring, catering and salon services. 
The categories of women who need vocational skills interventions are those who are school dropouts,women, widows and those who face extreme poverty, especially related to HIV/AIDS, Conflicts/wars, Politics, among others. Women and girls are in dire need of basic needs and supplementary benefits as Ugandans. These service points can hence be used to create opportunities to the target group who are in communities.The vocational skills and empowerment project is not clearly established to women, school dropouts, widows and orphans due to communities referring them as unfit, and rejects when it comes to inclusion in such projects.

**AYOWECCA UGANDA** Community vocational Skills Training Project is one of the programs that will be established to address psychosocial and economic problems among women, school dropouts, widows and orphans in Tororo and nearby areas. Our main focus is to protect natural resources, adaptation to climate change, conservation, skills development and empowering women and children. we are currently under plan of implementing a community skilling center activity in Tororo by February 2024.Through trainings, target groups will be taught different skills in Carpentry, briquette and Paper bag making,plastic recycling, Environment management, Sewing and Tailoring(making reusable sanitary towels, Bricklaying concrete and Practice, Leather Tanning, Hand Craft training ,promoting technologies through Computer training, Plumbing, Mechanics and Party Decoration, Hair dressing among others. After their training, they are expected to be able to produce good quality products leading to increase in Gross Domestic product and profitability. Secondly they will be able to effectively work in their village settings able to create jobs among themselves.
We will use funding from this grant to support and facilitate these  onboarding, education and advocacy efforts. With your help, we can improve the Web3 ecosystem to be more inclusive and equitable, and to bring the  capabilities and benefits of blockchain technology to vulnerable populations who need it the mos
