Productieve activiteiten/productive activities: skills training (2021)

Productieve activiteiten: skills training

WORK UG is sinds geruime tijd bezig met het bouwen aan een functioneel curriculum voor kinderen en jongvolwassenen met een verstandelijke beperking. Ze leren vaardigheden die ze binnen hun leefmilieu nodig hebben, nu en in de toekomst.

Voor een deel komt het neer op het formaliseren van wat kinderen doorgaans leren in het gezin: voor zichzelf zorgen, helpen in het huishouden, zich bewegen in de sociale omgeving b.v. sporten… Het dagelijks leven vormt de inspiratiebron voor het programma.

Voor de jongvolwassenen komt daar ‘werken’ bij. Het programma ‘productieve activiteiten’ focust op huishoudelijke vaardigheden -koken, bakken, tuinieren, dieren houden. Voor de jongeren van PROUD Uganda is het tegelijkertijd een stap in de voorbereiding op het werken in het cafetaria.

Voor elk onderdeel, b.v. koken of tuinieren, is nagedacht over welke vaardigheden de jongeren moeten leren. Per individu wordt gekeken hoever hij/zij staat en wat de werkpunten zijn.

De jongeren zitten geregeld samen met de begeleiders om allerlei aspecten van het programma te bespreken. B.v. wat ga je in jouw tuintje kweken? Wat zullen we volgende week bakken?

Elk groeplid houdt een fotoalbum bij. Dat maakt het gemakkelijk om het programma ook met de ouders te bespreken.

Productive activities: skills training

WORK UG has been building a functional curriculum for children and young adults with intellectual disabilities for some time now. They learn skills they need within their environment, now and in the future.

In part it comes down to formalizing what children usually learn in the family: taking care of themselves, helping with the household, moving around in the social environment e.g. sports… Daily life is the source of inspiration for the programme.

For the young adults, 'working' is added. The productive activities program focuses on household skills - cooking, baking, gardening, keeping animals. For the young adults of PROUD Uganda it is also a step in preparation for working in the cafeteria.

For each part, e.g. cooking or gardening, thought has been given to which skills the young people should learn. For each individual it is checked how far he/she stands and what the working points are.

The young adults regularly meet with the counselors to discuss various aspects of the program. E.g. what are you going to grow in your garden? What shall we bake next week?

Each group member keeps a photo album. This makes it easy to discuss the program with the parents as well.

Koken en bakken / cooking and baking (2021)

Leeractiviteiten 2021

Productieve activiteiten: koken en bakken

Vuur maken. Bridget.

We beschouwen koken ook als productieve activiteit omdat koken waarde toevoegt aan de producten die we kopen of uit de tuin halen. Koken en bakken zijn belangrijke huishoudelijke vaardigheden. In de toekomst gaan we ook koken en bakken voor de klanten van de cafetaria.

Kool snijden. Praise en Apophia.

Koken richtte zich eerst op traditioneel Oegandese gerechten zoals bijvoorbeeld posho en groundnuts sauce, later ook op meer moderne gerechten zoals frieten bakken of pannekoeken maken. Met de Oegandese ‘chapati’ (zoute pannekoeken) zitten we al op de overgang naar bakken.

Deeg maken

Het bakken gebeurt nog op de traditionele manier. Het gaat vooral om frituren. Voorbeelden zijn mandazi en samosa. Onze jongeren zien ze in de winkel liggen en beleven nu het plezier van ze zelf te maken! Ingrediënten klaar zetten; deeg maken; frituren, opdienen en smullen maar.

Productive activities: cooking and baking

Preparing posho

We also view cooking as a productive activity because cooking adds value to the produce we buy or take from the garden. Cooking and baking are important household skills. In the future we will also cook and bake for the customers of the cafeteria.

Preparing omelet

Cooking first focused on traditional Ugandan dishes such as posho and groundnut sauce, later also on more modern dishes such as frying chips or making pancakes. With the Ugandan 'chapati' (salty pancakes) we are already on the transition to baking.

PROUD bakery

Baking is still done in the traditional way. It's mainly about frying. Examples are mandazi and samosa. Our youngsters see them in the store and now experience the pleasure of making them themselves! Prepare ingredients; make dough; fry, serve and enjoy.

Preparing mandazi

Praise grows sweet potatoes

                                                         Sweet potatoes and pumpkin

At WORK Uganda last year 2019 the children of group 2 were asked to make the choices of the crops they like to grow in their personal garden. Every child gave the choice of the crops and they were given each a plot where to plant. And one of the children who is Ayebare Praise chose to grow sweet potatoes. She grew them with the guide from her skills trainer and now they are ready to harvest. The sweet potatoes from the garden of Praise are very sweet other children comments.

By Kiki

Pumpkins harvested at PROUD Village

Pumpkin plants are grown at Proud Village by the children together with their skills trainers.

They take care of the pumpkin plants such as weeding together with their skills trainer Wednesday Immaculate. 

When the pumpkin fruits start developing the skills trainer guides the children to cover them with pumpkin leaves to avoid being destroyed by sunshine. 

When the pumpkin fruit becomes big the skills trainer harvests it by hand picking and is taken to the kitchen for the children to eat. The children like enjoying eating the pumpkins which are cooked together with the dry beans.

Year theme cooking: Sarah preparing ground nuts

Sarah cooking

Sarah is a student of group 3 at Proud Uganda. She feels happy when she finds herself in the kitchen cooking. When it’s her time on the timetable to be in the kitchen to prepare food she is all the time smiling. She says am the “boss”. She enjoys preparing groundnuts and rice.

Mission 12: visit to the "First national skills fair"

The "First national skills fair" took place at UMA shouwground in Lugogo, Kampala. Since teaching skills is the main task of PROUD UG and WORK UG, we could not miss this scholarship.

We went there to listen to the presentations and were not disappointed. Erwin De Wandel, Head of the Belgian cooperation in Uganda, finished his speech saying: “It is not only about creating jobs, but about creating decent jobs leading to decent lives. It's about lives of men and women, leaving no one behind, nor the vulnerable or the disabled.”

The PROUD project works in that line. We see participating in fully-fledged economic activities and environments as the best strategy to value people with intellectual disabilities.

In the margin of the "skills fair" we also visited the "Uganda Private Sector Foundation" and more specifically the offices of the "Skills development facility". SDF sponsors skills training for various categories of workers.