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Careerpath is a registered Ugandan non-profit committed to stimulating career development for the Ugandan society. By initiating and sustaining a career system in Uganda through Career Awareness, Career Education, Work Experience Education, and Employability Education, Careerpath envisions a society where people have passionate and fulfilling work. Our aim is to integrate career teaching and learning in Uganda’s education system. Careerpath is highly reputable in the nonprofit sector in Uganda for its unique work of career guidance in schools and boasts of partnerships with public and private sector institutions. Among public sector Institutions includes a formal partnership with the Ministry of Education and Sports to work with education institutions and acknowledgement by National Curriculum Development Center to deliver career preparation programs to improve the quality of education in Uganda.
Careerpath promotes career teaching and learning in Ugandan formal and informal education systems through career education and awareness, employability and workforce readiness training. The way in which young people think about their career options is strongly influenced by their social background and settings. However, early and varied exposure to different careers and the world of work can help broaden their horizons. Careerpath believes getting this timely and early access to and utilization of career guidance information required to take informed career decisions increases young people’s future life chances to transition from school to work and to be responsible future employers and employees.
Andrew’s early life experiences, both as a student for 16 years and as an education practitioner for over a decade, opened his eyes to the reality that meaningful deliberate career education was almost absent in Ugandan schools. He believes that with guidance, individuals can best reflect and shape their desired career future. As it is now, our education system by far lacks this guidance, with very few school career teachers while the available ones lack the right technical support to do their job. Andrew wants to institutionalize career guidance in Uganda, to enable individuals get early career preparation, and lead an ensuing career future.
Fortunate describes his education as a coincidental expedition that never indicated to her what her future career would be. She wanted to be a lawyer but never knew what it takes to be a lawyer. She admired doctors but was never initiated into sciences. After testing this shady education journey, her resolve was to walk that path again, this time with students she would mentor to get to the top of their career ladder. Fortunate attributes Uganda’s career problems to lack of a career system that introduces students to career guidance. She feels the current education system hardly tells students how what they are learning connects to their career future. She believes career guidance should start right from primary school and the education system should increase students’ career preparation.
Young people in resource constrained communities deserve an early start to career development and employability to manage the potential ramifications that come with this gap. We provide our career programs to students and the teachers that bring career education to children in vulnerable and hard to reach communities to increase equitable access to career guidance information to those in most need.
Our career programs intently move career education beyond just ticking a box for a learner’s next subject, class, course or degree, rather use a system-wide approach, integrating age specific, gender focused, culturally appropriate, and globally acceptable standards.
If a child cannot learn in the way we teach, we must teach them in a way the child can learn. Making the classroom more relevant to learners is our strategy to shape the future of children and the school products the labor market receives.
Employers understand the labor market better than anyone. Careerpath believes working with them to deliver informed advice to learners and their teachers helps to bring the world of work closer to the classroom. We work with different companies and institutions to equip learners with the right tools, skills and information they need to learn about jobs.
We teach young people the importance of technology in pursuing their career dreams. As part of this learning, learners in our career lessons practically make paper-based apps that solve community challenges. Thanks to the digital partnership with AppsforGood and Aflatoun International .
Helping young people find their right Careerpath that will make them sustainably successful and contribute to economic empowerment of their immediate families and communities is an effort we are using to end poverty. We also mix our career lessons with lessons on entrepreneurship to make learners appreciate growing and living with an entrepreneurial mindset.
We work with relevant Civil society organisations to guide government on the priorities in career education and guidance in the school system.
We work to support policy shift towards strategies that support more investment into career education, information and guidance.
Through a balanced career education curriculum, we support learners to challenge gender stereotypes in choosing a career. We inspire students to pursue careers in industries that have traditionally been dominated by males or females respectively.
We believe that one act of mentorship has the power to transform a whole generation. Our career education programs connect students and graduates to successful professionals in different career fields they aspire to penetrate. These career mentors offer the young people advise, counselling, and direction as they pursue their career dreams.
CareerPath International has a number of educative and exciting programs which include :.
Aims to create extensive public awareness of the benefits of early and continuous career education and guidance at all levels of society in order to increase Read More ...
aims to increase the ability of young people to define their career ambitions and select relevant career choices. Read More ...
focuses on connecting students to employers to learn about the world of work, and for others, especially graduates, to market their skills to employers Read More ...
Embedding employability and work readiness skills training into education equips young people for the future world of work. Read More ...