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Empowering Potential. Transforming Lives. From Skills to Income

Luckista Unite works alongside youth, women, displaced people, and host communities across South Sudan to turn ability into opportunity: connecting practical skills with the finance, markets and support people need to build a sustainable income and a dignified future.

Ability Isn’t the Barrier.

Across South Sudan, capable people, including those displaced by conflict and the host communities that have welcomed them, are held back not by lack of ability but by lack of access: to finance, to markets, to the networks that turn effort into income. Displacement, conflict and climate shocks make that gap even wider. The people we work with don’t need to be rescued. They need a path.

The Skills to Income Pathway

The Skills to Income Pathway connects four reinforcing pieces: skills, enterprise, financial inclusion,
and lasting partnerships so potential turns into income that lasts
beyond the length of a single programme.

Skills & Enterprise

Market-matched vocational and business training, plus mentorship and direct links to employers and buyers. We give people the skills to make something worth selling and the connections to sell it.

Resilient Livelihoods

One bad season of drought, flood or hunger can wipe out years of progress. Climate-smart agriculture, food security support, and cash and voucher assistance protect what people have built, so a shock becomes a setback rather than a reset.

Financial Inclusion

Village Savings and Loan Associations give people a safe, community-run way to save, borrow and build capital together, often for the first time. Financial literacy training helps them turn irregular income into money they can plan, save and reinvest.

Partnership & Systems

We build community ownership from the start and partner with United Nations Agencies, non-governmental organizations, government, and the private sector to connect people to finance and markets that no single organization can open alone.