Mulago Vocational Training Centre is a Catholic founded school of Mulago Catholic Church (Our Lady Help of the Sick). The school was founded primarily to aid the vulnerable girl child by the Spiritan Fathers. The school accommodates girls and boys as well as teenage mothers and adults especially the less privileged/ marginalized with an aim of equipping them with hands on skills to enable them have a means of survival. The school was fully registered with Ministry of Education and Sports in 2003, classified as a Vocational Training School, mixed and day. Registration number: PVS/M/165

Courses Offered

  • Catering and Hotel Management

  • Tailoring and Sewing

  • Hair Dressing and Beauty

  • Metal Fabrication and Welding

  • Computer

Vision, Mission and Goal 

Our Mission:

To reach out and provide quality skills to the less privileged and the marginalized youth in society.

Our Vision:

To spear head in giving quality vocational education that can compete in the contemporary society.

Our Goal:

To produce skilled young people that can be self-supportive.

Course Target Group

Mulago Vocational Training Centre mainly offers skills to the less privileged and marginalized youth who include:-

  • School dropouts at all levels like primary or secondary due to various reasons

  • Child mothers due to early/ teenage pregnancies

  • The poor students whose parents cannot afford school fees to higher institutions of learning.

  • Those with disabilities like the deaf and the mentally handicapped but are able to get some skills.

  • It has been noticed that the biggest percentage of these categories cannot afford to pay the fees yet they need these skills.

Training Center Challenges

The school has various challenges that range from equipment, financial needs and space.

The hostel with only 8 rooms is the biggest source of funds to the school and these funds help in paying staff salaries, though is not enough. The second source of funds is tuition from students which is insufficient since tuition ranges from 150,000/= to 250,000/= Ugsh depending on the course. This is equivalent to 36 to 60 Euros per semester depending on the course taken. In addition, the school also through the catering department offers outside catering services like luncheons and dinners for various functions plus cakes for birthdays, weddings and other types of cakes as needed.
The school has 3 classrooms and a kitchen which are not adequate to house all the courses and therefore students study in shifts where by year one students study in the morning (8am to 1pm) while second year students study in the afternoon (2pm- 5pm). In addition, the welding class lacks a workshop for carrying out their practical work/ lessons.
The school lacks the necessary Tailoring and Sewing equipment that a good standard vocational school must have. We lack the following
⦁ Electronic Sewing machines
⦁ Knitting machines
⦁ Finishing machines
⦁ Ironing boxes
We lack a grinding machine and workshop (working shed).

We lack:-

  • Hair driers
  • Hand driers
  • Sinks

We lack the following equipment

  • Ovens
  • Mixing machines
  • Slicing machines
  • Deep fryers
  • Food warmers
  • Sauce pans for cooking
  • Dinner plates
  • Tea cups/ mugs
  • Side plates
  • Serving dishes
  • Cutlery (forks, spoons, table knives and ledos)
  • Service trays
  • Outside kitchen (a simple aerated shade)

We lack a computer Lab.

We lack the following equipment

  • Printer/ Photocopying machine
  • Computers
  • Painting
  • Renovations/ Sealing

Suggested Way Forward/Solutions

  1. Tailoring and Sewing
    • Uniform making for schools and companies
  2. Metal Fabrication & Welding
    • Window and door frames
  3. Hair Dressing & Beauty
    • Outside and surrounding customers
  4. Catering & Hotel Management
    • Outside catering
    • Cakes
    • Food deliveries to offices
    • Other snacks