Skit Training

The SKIT training course is aimed at equipping the clients/beneficiaries with Knitting and Sewing machine repair and maintenance skills. This ensures that once we issue them with either a sewing or a knitting machine, they are able to take care of it and use it effectively to be able to earn a living through it and support themselves and their families.

The inmates are trained on the use of the sewing and knitting machines while in prison, however, they are not equipped with the skills on repair and maintenance. Besides, the machines that they use while in prison for the study are a bit different from the ones that we receive from Tools to Work – Netherlands hence the reason for the SKIT training.

During the SKIT trainings that we hold every year, we provide transport, food and accommodation for the whole period during the training. Upon completion of the training, we issue each participant with a certificate, a knitting or a sewing machine in addition to material to enable them set up small businesses in the villages to be able to support themselves and their families. We also organize them into support groups in different regions for them to continue supporting and encouraging each other in addition to helping one another incase their machines have a problem and one is unable to repair by themselves.