Construction and masonry
Practical instruction in masonry, bricklaying, construction methods, measurement, and material preparation. These skills can lead to construction work, apprenticeships, and small building businesses.
HANDS-ON SKILLS
Technical and vocational training
Diar Foundation supports vulnerable young women and men in South Sudan and Uganda to gain practical, market-oriented skills for employability, livelihoods, entrepreneurship, and economic independence.
The training is hands-on. It is joined with entrepreneurship, life skills, mentoring, and pathways into work or self-employment. Particular attention is given to vulnerable and out-of-school youth, young women, and other young people who face barriers to education, employment, and formal skills development.
500
young people directly trained in vocational and technical skills, 2024–2025
2
program countries: South Sudan and Uganda
100%
of those participants received practical, skills-focused training
Over time, the wider youth vocational and livelihood work has reached 7,000 young people. That figure is the longer track record.
Materials and site practice
Trainees work with bricks, mortar, and site preparation so the skill is learned by doing, not only in a classroom.
Catering and hospitality
Food handling, preparation, kitchen organization, hygiene, and presentation. Pathways include restaurants, catering services, institutional kitchens, and self-employment, with particular opportunities for young women.
Electrical and technical skills
Hands-on practice with tools, wiring, installation, maintenance, safety, and basic electrical systems. These skills can support apprenticeships, technical employment, and repair services.
Tailoring and garment making
Sewing, measuring, cutting, garment production, finishing, and repair. Tailoring can lead to paid work, home-based production, and a small business.
Other vocational pathways
The wider training approach also includes carpentry and furniture making, welding and metal fabrication, automotive and motorcycle mechanics, computer and digital skills, agriculture and agribusiness, hairdressing and beauty, handicrafts, and shoemaking and leatherwork.
Vocational training is connected with entrepreneurship, life skills, mentoring, and business development so a young person can move from learning a trade to employment, an apprenticeship, or a microenterprise.
Youth skills work has included collaboration with government institutions, training providers, community structures, UNICEF, Save the Children, and other partners. Naming them records that collaboration. It does not mean they currently fund Diar Foundation.
What we do
Equip young people with practical skills, confidence, resilience, and livelihood pathways that enable them to participate productively in their communities.
Technical and vocational training
Business skills
Business-group formation
Entrepreneurship
Life skills
Youth education
Inclusion of youth with disabilities
Peace building and conflict resolution
Mentoring
Historical partnership work
Diar Foundation’s youth work connects vocational and business skills with resilience, employ-ability, entrepreneurship, participation, peace-building, and pathways into productive group activity.
Historical records document work with Save the Children, including DANIDA-supported youth resilience and European Union-supported youth employ-ability and participation. That work included youth resilience, skills training, business-group formation, and sub-grants to business groups. Location: South Sudan. Exact locations will be added from the project file.
Those project cycles are historical. They do not mean Save the Children, DANIDA, or the European Union currently fund Diar Foundation.
