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Gara Tie Dye, Batik and Soapmaking Department |
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This is a one year training to learn how to make the traditional Gara Tie Dye or Batik and also how to produce soap with locally available materials.
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Carpentry and Joinery Department |
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In this department students are thought how to construct different kinds of furniture. The studies involve both theoretical and practical sessions.
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Buidling & Construction Department |
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The students of the Building & Construction Department learn important construction principals and are involved in Safer Futures projects, in case construction work is included.
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 With respect and understanding for the needs of local rural inhabitants, the Safer Future Youth Training and Vocational Institute tries to reduce high youth unemployment through training in practical and necessary life skills. The goal of the Vocational Institute is to encourage local inhabitants to improve their skills in order to benefit their local communities ,and thus avoiding "brain drain".
In contrast to most other Vocational Institutes, the education at Safer Future is free and so the students only have to pay for practical costs - an amount which is not readily met by most students. In 1994, the Training Centre was established in Allen Town (near Freetown), starting with courses in Carpentry and Joinery, Baking, Tailoring and Dressmaking.
Besides the special education in the different departments, every student acquires basic knowledge in Mathematics, English, General Paper, Guidance and Counselling as well as in economical agriculture. At the project owned farm in Nyangba Town, Koya Rural District, the knowledge is put to use.
Since the Institutes inception and despite the significant challenges of the war-torn years, more than 200 students have graduated and Safer Future has become one of the best training institutes nationwide. Today there are 8 departments operating in the Technical/vocational Institute. 7 of this departments operates in Allen Town. They include Tailoring and Dressmaking, Carpentry and Joinery, Building and Construction, Catering and Hotel Management, Gara Tie Dye/Batik and Soap-making, Cosmetology and Computer Studies.
The Rural Electronics Workshop is at the project's Agricultural and Renewable Energy Development Centre situated at Nyamgba Town via Joe Town, Köya Rural District. It trains students in Basic Electronics and Solar Engineering. Among the number of students trained are two Nigerians through the sponsorship of the Subshine Fellowship in Autria. This is in consonant with the Project's asperations to transfer the Technology in the sub regions. Efforts are also put in place to effect training in other Renewable Energy System such as Biomas, Biogas, Wind Turbine in september this years.
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The Safer Future Youth Development Project was first conceived as a youth initiative project between Sierra Leoneans and Austrians. Leading to the formation of SFYDP were Idriss S. Kamara (Project Manager) and Martin Strele (Overseas Coordinator, Advisor) in order to create opportunities for the large and growing number of deprived and marginalised young people in Sierra Leone. The SFYDP was specifically conceived for those face with unemployment, illiteracy, crime, desperation and depression. The key goals of the Project are to provide free education to the most impoverished youths, thus breaking the cycle of poverty and illiteracy and establishing an opportunity for real and sustainable change within the community. Improving the living conditions of rural inhabitants is another target of the SFYDP, to date this has been achieved primarily through the installation of much needed infrastructure such as water supply and electricity. The success of SFYDP has been due to the many committed volunteers who have dedicated their time, expertise and enthusiasm to the SFYDP, even during the war torn period in Sierra Leone; as a result, the Safer Future Youth Development Project has become a model of success for youth training and education nationwide.  1993: - The foundation of the SFYDP as a youth initiative. - Establishment of the Safer Future Youth Training and Vocational Institute at Lower Allen Town with courses in Tailoring and Dressmaking, Carpentry, Joinery and Baking
1994: -Safer Future acquired a thirty-one acre farm located in Nyangba Town, Koya Rural District (near Waterloo). Its aim is to offer a place for hands-on work for agricultural students of the Vocational Institute and as well to produce and sell the harvested products thus rendering the project a self-sustaining endeavour.The war did not stop the work of SFYDP volunteers, although it was a very difficult period during which the staff and students suffered great hardship.
2000:
-The Safer Future Youth Development Project won the “Regional Commonwealth Youth Service Award” and the “Pan Commonwealth Youth Award”. The prize money was used to construct an additional building in which the administrative office, a computer lab and two other classrooms are located.
-Introduction of a Mobile Skills Training for rural communities with workshops in soap making and Gara Tye in the villages of Konta Line, Moyaebana (both in the Koya Rural District) and Moyaewa (in Mattru Jong, Bonthe District)
2003-2004:
 -Two staff of Safer Future, sponsored by the Sunshine Fellowship Austria, were trained at the Barefoot College in India in Solar Engineering and Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting.
2005:
-The two trained technicians installed solar panelling in 20 houses of a rural community with fixed solar home light systems and solar lanterns. Safer Future constructed two underground rainwater harvesting-tanks, each with a capacity of around 100, 000 litres to serve students and neighbours during the time the of dry season in the Faith-in-Christ Primary School in Allen Town and the Safer Future Vocational Training Institute.
-Members of the SFYDP were trained by Life Water International in water and sanitation, covering the construction of land-dug wells, installation and maintenance of hand pumps and education on hygiene and sanitation.
2006:
-A pilot project of hand pump rehabilitation at the Ahmadiyya Primary School in Malaisoko, Koya Rural District, was realised with the sponsorship of the Blue Planet Run Foundation. -Safer Future started its first “Rural Electronic Workshop” in Nyangba Town at the project owned farm, with a training in Basic Electronics and Solar Engineering, and is the first organization to provide such training nationwide. |
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Focus on Rural Development |
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 People living in a developing country like Sierra Leone, which remains heavily affected by the destructions of the war, lack not only of poor education and insufficient work, but mostly suffer from bad water supply, insufficient sanitation and poor health care. Safer Future strives to help the marginalised and deprived rural poor to improve the living conditions in the rural areas by (re-)creating the necessary infrastructure and also by training community inhabitants in repairing and maintaining the facilities.
Furthermore, sensitisation and the implementation of community based care-taking committees shall guarantee proper handling and for this reason the best possible life duration.  With the introduction of alternate energy sources in Sierra Leone, the Safer Future Youth Development Project aims to create a non-polluting, long lasting way of providing power through solar energy, which is affordable for even the poorest people.For the rural population who are mostly farmers, it is difficult to gain enough money for the education of their children or for covering the costs in case medical treatment is needed. Training in soap making and Gara Tye, as well as equipping them with basic tools, as is the aim Safer Future, gives the possibility to deal with the rising costs.
For each of the different fields, there are specially trained staff members within the Youth Development Project. |
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