We offer work based Non-formal hands-on skills training in Textiles for job and wealth creation in Uganda. TEXFAD operates a non-formal Skills Training Academy that is accredited by Directorate of Industrial Training (DIT) as a Centre for competence-based assessment in line with Uganda Vocational Qualification Framework.
Textile weaving at TEXFAD
Handloom weaving at TEXFAD
Skills training at TEXFAD
A trainee cerebrates acquisition of rug weaving skills at TEXFAD
Our Business Incubation programme is designed to offer: business plan development, equipped production space, technical support services, marketing and other business support services that are necessary to run a startup business. Specifically we offer the following Business Incubation support services:
The Earn as you Learn programme at TEXFAD is designed to support Vocational Education students to turn their innovative ideas into businesses while still at school. The programme admits students for internship at TEXFAD and continues to support them through their final years of study.
The incubator supports them to develop idea to prototype level and finally to branded products which are then commercialized. The process enables the students to Learn while Earning. This encourages students to focus their learning to job creation rather than job seeking.