Thematic Area 3
Refugees don't want handouts. They want opportunities to work, earn income, and provide for their families with dignity. Yet in Kyangwali, economic barriers are overwhelming. Youth and women lack marketable skills. Families receive no land for large-scale farming. Capital to start businesses doesn't exist. Markets are limited, and competition is intense.
The result: capable and motivated people are trapped in dependency, surviving on $4 USD monthly aid that barely covers food. This is a systematic denial of economic agency that keeps refugees powerless and perpetually reliant on external support.
P4T transforms this reality by equipping refugees with marketable skills, business knowledge, startup capital, and ongoing mentorship, enabling genuine self-reliance. Since our founding, we've trained over 1,000 youth and women in vocational skills, supported hundreds in starting their own businesses, and created pathways from unemployment to dignified income generation.
Building Marketable Skills for Dignified Employment
P4T operates a comprehensive vocational training centre offering courses that last 4–7 months and combine hands-on practice with theoretical knowledge. Every trainee receives business management training covering bookkeeping, pricing strategies, customer service, marketing, and financial planning.
Upon completion, trainees receive startup kits with the tools and materials needed to begin working immediately.
Courses Offered
Turning Small Plots into Income Sources
P4T introduced the Vegetable Agriculture Investment (VAI) programme, an innovative approach that teaches refugees to grow high-value vegetables and fruits on tiny plots using intensive techniques, container gardening, and vertical growing methods that maximise production in minimal space.
This award-winning model (TEEP 2026 winner) inspired the AGILE Project — Agricultural Growth Innovation for Livelihood Enhancement — currently being implemented (2025–2027) with ThinkIT and War Child Canada, funded by GIZ.
Building Businesses Through Collective Action
At the start of our Livelihood Programming, P4T established women's economic empowerment groups where women learned income-generating skills using local environmental materials. Over 300 women participated in these empowerment groups, generating income that pays school fees, buys food, covers medical expenses, and builds savings for emergencies.
Skills Learned
Turning Ideas into Sustainable Businesses
P4T provides comprehensive entrepreneurship training to youths using different curricula. Training covers opportunity identification, market assessment, business planning, financial management, customer relations, and growth strategies. Course selection depends on the needs of the group being trained.
Curricula Used
We provide complete economic empowerment packages, not just skills training. Trainees receive everything they need to truly succeed: