The livelihood and skills training programmes are heavily subscribed to, but regrettably 45% of students are forced to drop out of the training programmes for two main reasons.

1. Lack of child care for the younger children.
2. The provision of food for the family on the day of training takes priority.

PCF school students were also dropping out of school because they felt the pressure to return to work on the dump site because as they were the eldest children in the family they wanted to support their parents by earning an income, some of our children felt this pressure from as young as 7 years old!

For the livelihood students we started our own day care center where younger children could be supervised while they trained.

For both PCF school and Livelihood students we started a Food for Learning program where livelihood could collect a daily food parcel on their training days.

For PCF school students, a daily rice credit was given to encourage regular school attendance and the opportunity for children to earn canned food credits for academic and behaviour achievements.

In both cases attendance improved almost over night and both sets of students found that they were able to learn without the pressure or guilt of attending classes.

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