Initiated by Hope Community Action Africa, Uphold Institute is a critical vocational project with the goal of a community-based holistic empowerment center impacting 1,000 young people annually.

Objective

Transform vulnerable young people into God-fearing, productive, skilled, participatory and ambassadors of transformation in their own community.

Values

1. Godfearing: Having a sense of purpose, meaning, and connection in life, a basic foundation for effective growth, maturity and influential sustainability.
2. Productive: Ability and zeal for productive employment, leading to a healthy lifestyle.
3. Skill: Engaging in creative and mentally stimulating activities, with a desire to learn, grow, and challenge one’s own mind.
4. Participatory: Building and maintaining meaningful relationships with others. It includes a sense of belonging, support, and connection to one’s own community.
5. Transformation: Understanding, objective, and mindful of the emotional wellbeing others.

Vocational

We look forward to the launching the first holistic empowerment center. While we are working on this, we are running an integrated, collaborative research initiative with the goal of inspiring young people to understand themselves and their environment, set goals and utilize available resources to steadily grow individual and corporate ability for productive employment, leading to a healthy lifestyle, with the following short term goals:

1. Understand the current curriculum, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities implemented by a selection of vocational institutions, including those the Hope Community Action Africa (HCAA) children attend.
2. Establish available in-school and community career motivation opportunities; their duration, content, motivation, and their success stories.
3. Study the opportunities and challenges of selected industries in correlation with skills provided by existing vocational institutions.
4. Measure the progress rate of graduated vocational students in the previous 3 years in relation to their preset personal goals, and estimate the competence level towards producing world-class services and products.