Students at the Kaliyangile Youth Training Centre, Chisamba, Zambia, learning dressmaking and tailoring on a Workaid sewing machine. © Sue Gotley, Workaid.
In 2010/11, The Rufford Foundation provided a grant of £2,000 to Workaid.
Workaid tackles poverty by helping to improve the livelihoods of vulnerable people living in extreme poverty, mostly in East Africa. We achieve this by enabling people to acquire the skills/knowledge to earn a basic living and become self-supporting. Workaid refurbishes tools and equipment, collected from the UK public, and sends them to vocational training projects overseas.
Projects we assist target the most vulnerable groups in society: unemployed teenagers, orphans, street children, disabled and elderly people, refugees and widows, Workaid assists an estimated 8,000 disadvantaged people annually, giving them the practical assistance they need to earn their way out of poverty.
