Ivan Katende

van is another 2017 CREATES beneficiary of the Vocational Training Scheme from Gobero community. He is 19 years of age and his highest level of education is Senior Four, which he completed in 2015. Ivan was orphaned at an early age and was taken under the care of his grandmother who has been extremely supportive of Ivan. Unfortunately however, his grandmother is 100% dependent on subsistence farming, and therefore struggled to support Ivan through his studies beyond Senior Four.

Ivan has been doing casual labour for the last two years to try and see if he can raise enoughmoney to join a vocational school but had not managed to raise the required funds He was therefore delighted to be offered the scholarship with CREATES and enrolled at St Padre Pio Integrated Training Centre tackling a one year course in building and concrete practice.