We provide Pre-Departure Orientation and Training (PDOT) programme so as to protect vulnerable migrant workers who are looking for better opportunities of work outside their countries. Our programme is carefully designed to enable the migrant worker to adapt to the political, historic, cultural, social and economic context of destination or host country in general and community in particular. Our programme caters for all categories of migrant workers, from illiterates to highly qualified professionals; those from the rural areas and the urban dwellers. We in addition, place a high value on diversity of race, language, gender and culture.
To be an internationally acclaimed Pre-departure Orientation and training center.
Our Mission
We provide quality needs-based Pre-departure Orientation and training that is geared towards helping participants achieve their economic, professional and career goals.
Since its inception, the Fundamentals of Great Lakes Training Centre (GLTC) has been committed to providing the highest quality, needs-based pre-departure orientation and training interventions to its clients, both locally and internationally. We are driven by our team’s passion for education, training and development and 100% commitment to excellent service.
What Makes Us Different
As a new generation training centre, we have a firm commitment to our Course Participants and stake holders. We want to ensure that there is a measurable impact and sustainable change to enable the participants achieve their social, economic, professional and career goals.
Values
We believe that the rich learning experiences our training offers can effect powerful and positive transformation in individuals and in their destination countries and communities. We work with our partners and sponsors worldwide who provide us with valuable feedback to help us improve our training programs so as to enable participants reach across – and live across – boundaries and borders. And we do this in an atmosphere of mutual respect, organized collaboration, and fun.
We employ a core team of exceptional individuals and draw on a wide array of professional associates and support personnel on an as-needed basis. GLTC has a diverse human resource capacity that consists of individuals that have worked on international, national and local levels with proven track records of delivery in the education, training and development programmes to the state, private and non-governmental sectors. Within our pool of professionals are people that have worked extensively in all corners of Uganda. It should be noted that our staff and Associates come from a host of backgrounds including national and local government, business and civil society organisations.
Migration of labor is a service export for Uganda. The notion of "export readiness" of any product or service takes place in the country of origin and it accounts for 75% of the product/service's marketability. It is critical to understand that competiveness in the export market calls for quality standards. It is also important for safeguarding the Ugandan brand image in the export of migrant workers .The pre-departure orientation is a way to add value and to polish the product of the migrant laborers
The curriculum has the following programme components