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Empowering Potential. Transforming Lives.
From Skills to Income

Supporting Young People and Women in
South Sudan to Gain Skills, Earn and Thrive.
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.

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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 Goal We are Building Toward.

Numbers only mean something when they’re tied to a real target and a real deadline so here’s ours, plainly stated.

50000

youth and women reached with skills, financial inclusion or livelihood support by 2036.

70%

+
of participants reporting increased income or self-reliance.

2022

Founded in 2022 by former refugees and returnees, Luckista Unite built the Skills to Income Pathway from firsthand experience.

2022

Founded in 2022 by former refugees and returnees, Luckista Unite built the Skills to Income Pathway from firsthand experience.

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 Goal We are Building Toward.

Numbers only mean something when they’re tied to a real target and a real deadline so here’s ours, plainly stated.

50000

youth and women reached with skills, financial inclusion or livelihood support by 2036.

70%

of participants reporting increased income or self-reliance.

2022

Founded in 2022 by former refugees and returnees, Luckista Unite built the Skills to Income Pathway from firsthand experience.

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.

1


Skills & Enterprise

Our training model consists of practical training, mentorship and direct employer connections that turn ability into work.

2


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.

3


Resilient Livelihoods

Climate-smart agriculture, food security support, and cash and voucher assistance protect what people have built, so a bad season becomes a setback rather than a reset.

4


Partnership & Systems

Local leaders and participants are involved from the design stage, not brought in once a plan is already finished elsewhere.

Our Stories

She started with one skill and the will to survive.

With the right support: training, a savings group, a connection to the market that skill became income. That income became stability. And that stability became something bigger: the ability to plan for tomorrow, not just get through today.
Grace M.

Our Stories

She started with one skill and the will to survive.

With the right support: training, a savings group, a connection to the market that skill became income. That income became stability. And that stability became something bigger: the ability to plan for tomorrow, not just get through today.
Grace M.

Join the work

Your support can turn one person’s skill into something that outlasts the programme that started it. Whether you’re supporting from South Sudan or from abroad, you’re funding a specific piece of the pathway: a training cohort, a market connection that opens a door someone couldn’t open alone.