President Museveni has pledged to support the beneficiaries of the Presidential Initiative on Skilling the Girl and Boy Child (PISGBC) project with start-up capital for their businesses.
The President made these remarks on October 10, 2023, while officiating at the 4th graduation ceremony of 16,797 beneficiaries of the PISGBC project from different units who joined the course starting from 2021 to 2023 at Kololo Independence Grounds.
“I want to assure you that we are going to give you start-up capital,” President Museveni stated.
The president told the graduates that the government will only be able to support them if they agree to work in groups and not individually.
“It will be challenging to support you individually. You should therefore form groups, as we will help you together. You have to work together,” Museveni said.
The president also revealed that the government will expand the programme so that other skilling disciplines, like ceramics, are added to the initiative.
“I do not see the ceramics because that activity has been here since time immemorial, even paper making, we are going to add them,” he revealed.
He warned school head teachers and other education stakeholders against frustrating the government’s move to extend free education to young Ugandans through universal education.
The PISGBC project was initiated by President Museveni in 2017 with the aim of skilling and empowering underprivileged youth in Kampala.
