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) supported 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.

While individuals are encouraged to submit research concepts on any of the four topics above for possible partial support towards a successful, up-to-date, international standard research process and reporting, we also welcome industrial engagement to help adapt any of the four focus areas to their specific industrial interests, inline with the goal goal and objective of Uphold Institute.

If interested please let us know, using any of our contact details provided on this website.