Apprenticeship Scheme

This project, designed to teach vocational skills to those young people who did not, for whatever reason, get to go to secondary school. Without skills the youth are trapped in the poverty cycle and may never escape. At best they will be farmers or unskilled labourers on road building projects, at worse they will be bandits or thieves.

We desperately need sponsors to help us with this project, who can afford the £84 per month donations. This is aimed at the corporate market such as builders and other construction orientated companies.

The Livingstone Tanzania Trust has set up an apprenticeship scheme targeted at those young people in the Waangwaray Community who failed to get into secondary education. It is intended that this scheme offer an opportunity to train the youth out of the poverty trap they find themselves in by providing them vocation training and a savings scheme.

The Training Programmes

Livingstone Tanzania Trust will provide each apprentice with:

• A guardian to meet with each month to discuss problems and provide feedback.
• A uniform.
• A compulsory savings scheme of Tsh500/= per working day
• A donation of Tsh500/= per working day to their house mother
• A salary stating at Tsh1000/=, raising to Tsh2500/= after 6 months, and to Tsh3000/= after 1 year.
• A two-year contract of employment
• There is no guarantee of a job at the end of the two years.

Total cost is $1526 or £1004 per year or £84 per month and the programme lasts for 2 years

Fundi Training Scheme

During the building process, each apprentice shall work closely with each fundi who will ensure that they pass on their skills.

Each apprentice in the construction programme will be loaned tool (hammer, trowel, saw) during their first year. At the beginning of year two they will be allowed to keep one tool of their choice.

When they are not working on construction related issues they will be able to work on the farm or other sites being run by LTT.

The 1^st year training shall be broken down into three separate areas

Mason - Brick laying, floor laying, plastering.

Carpenter - roof making, roof erecting.

Painting - mixing paints, understanding different types of paint, sandblasting

The 2^nd year of training shall be for each trainee to choose a trade he prefers and work closely with the allocated fundi. During this year he will also work with the head fundi to learn about budgeting and quote preparation.

At the end of the apprenticeship, there is no guarantee of a job with LTT, but he will leave with a reference relating to his competencies and our best wishes.

Apprenticeship Rules

Each apprentice will ensure that they

• Arrive at the agreed time each day that they are expected.
• Work the day long and retire from work at the agreed time.
• Attend the meetings with their guardian
• Behave in a manner suited to their employment
• Show respect to their fellow employees
• Do not come to work under the influence of legal or illegal substances that impair their ability to function.
• Maintain their uniform and ensure it is clean
• Look after all property loaned to them during their apprenticeship and return it.