Special challenges facing women.
Kalaya Vocational Training Centre is located in Ssese Island’s Kalangala district. The district is known for its beautiful white beaches, fishing, birds of many species and lush green forest. The district has a major problem—it is one of the districts in Uganda with the highest rate of HIV/AIDS. The school drop-out rate for girls and teenage pregnancies is very high.
The Kalaya Training Centre, with its one-year program paid for by WOH sponsors, provides mentoring support, life skills development, and vocational training courses to young women. The young women learn a skill that will help them to fully support themselves. The school has a sewing workshop that makes many beautiful items to generate income for the Centre.
More than a trade.
Uganda is in a phase of recovery and reconstruction as it works to emerge from a 23-year civil war. Violent conflict has devastating effects on a country and its people, including economic and infrastructural damage, exacerbated health issues, orphaned children and displaced people. The violence that swept Uganda inflicted a particularly heavy toll on women.
The ministry of Kalaya School on beautiful Ssese Island, Uganda, Africa is to equip young women with skills that will enable them to be gainfully employed for their future.
- 01 Vocational trainingCourses in catering and tailoring, with child care classes planned.
- 02 Mentoring supportGuidance through the one-year program.
- 03 Life skills developmentSkills that will enable them to be gainfully employed for their future.
Kalaya Projects
Ways to support the young women and children at Kalaya. Choose one to see what it needs.
Vocational Courses
Sponsor a young woman for just $50 per month you give a young woman an opportunity to enroll in a one-year course at the Kalaya Vocational Training Centre to learn a skill in catering or tailoring that will help them break the cycle of poverty in their lives.
Kalaya Projects
Ways to support the young women and children at Kalaya. Choose one to see what it needs.
Four Additional Classrooms
Kalaya Junior School needs four additional classrooms. More classrooms mean more children can learn in a safe space close to home. Your gift helps us build them.
Kalaya Projects
Ways to support the young women and children at Kalaya. Choose one to see what it needs.
School Van
Kalaya Junior School needs a school van so students can travel safely to and from school, and to trips and activities. Your gift helps us buy and run it.
Kalaya Projects
Ways to support the young women and children at Kalaya. Choose one to see what it needs.
Staff Housing Phase 2
Phase 2 of the staff housing at Kalaya was completed in February 2026. Missionaries, teachers and staff now have housing on site, so they can stay close to the students they serve. Thank you to everyone who gave.
In their own words.
Thank you for your support. Because of you, I am learning the trade of sewing. I love to create beautiful things and am most grateful that I will be able to use the skills I learn at Kalaya to make a future for myself.
I am most grateful to be in school. I will study hard to make a better future for myself and for my family. Because of your support, I am happy today. I would not be in school if it were not for you. God bless you very much.
I am thankful for all of the very important lessons I have learned thanks to my sponsor. I work hard to make you proud. Thank you for your support.
Give a young woman a trade and a future.
For $50 a month, you sponsor one young woman’s year at Kalaya.