Hello, from Namayemba: How era92 and AsOne Ministries Are Building the Road to 100,000 Skilled Jobs

A satellite hub, a forgotten community, and a mission too big for one building. This is how we scale opportunity — one community at a time.

In partnership with AsOne Ministries

Every era92 Hub begins with a simple act of belief: someone looks at a community the world has passed over and decides it is exactly the right place to invest.

Namayemba is one of those communities. A place in eastern Uganda where many young people complete secondary school only to find a wall of closed doors on the other side. No local industry to absorb them. No digital infrastructure to connect them. No formal training institution that speaks to their reality.

So we went there. And this is the story of what happens when you do.

The mission: 100,000 skilled jobs

Paint it on the wall, and you can’t ignore it. Inside our hubs you’ll find one sentence written large: on a mission to create 100,000 skilled jobs.

It’s an audacious number on purpose. Across Uganda, the majority of young people are locked out of the formal economy — not for a lack of talent or ambition, but for a lack of on-ramps. Training that meets them where they are. Work that actually pays. A path from one to the other.

One hundred thousand skilled jobs is our answer to that gap. But here’s the honest truth we had to face early: you cannot create 100,000 jobs from a single building in Kampala. No matter how good that building is.

To reach a number that big, the model itself has to travel. It has to reach the young person in Namayemba who will never make it to the city — and reach them without asking them to leave home. That is the problem the Elevate Booth was built to solve.

What is the Elevate Booth?

The Elevate Booth is era92’s satellite hub model — a lightweight, local training node that we drop into a remote community and plug directly into our main hub infrastructure in Kampala.

Think of it like this. A full era92 Hub is a powerful engine. The Elevate Booth is a way to extend that engine’s reach into places it could never physically be — by setting up a focused training space locally, then connecting it back to the centre.

Through that connection, a young person in a rural village gets access to the same model as a young person in the capital:

• The same curriculum, designed and quality-controlled centrally.
• The same trainers and mentorship, plugged in from the main hub.
• The same pathway — our Train → Employ → Finance model, so skills lead to real work and, eventually, capital.
• The same connection to demand, including remote and global digital work.

A Booth isn’t a watered-down version of era92 for the countryside. It’s a doorway into the full thing — without the young person having to migrate to find it. That is how everything works: local presence, central power.

Why we do this with partners like AsOne Ministries

We can’t be everywhere. But our partners already are.

That’s the genius of the satellite model: era92 brings the engine — the curriculum, the trainers, the Train → Employ → Finance pathway, the connection to global work. A partner brings the thing we can’t parachute in: local presence, local trust, and a physical home in the community.

AsOne Ministries is exactly that kind of partner. They are a team of hundreds of Ugandans committed to bringing lasting change to rural communities, one community at a time — the same conviction that drives every era92 Hub. When their reach meets our model, a community like Namayemba doesn’t just get a training program. It gets a permanent doorway into the modern economy.

The first fruit of that partnership now hangs over a rooftop in Namayemba: a sign reading AsOne Elevate Hub – Namayemba. A community that had no era92 presence at the start of the year now has a hub, a cohort, and a story being rewritten.

Namayemba, by the numbers

The curriculum at Namayemba was designed for where these students actually are. Computer Basics for those who had never used a device professionally. Graphics Design and Web Development for those hungry to build. The Booth meets people where they are — and takes them further than they imagined.

In its very first season, here’s what that looked like:

Alongside the training, community outreach sessions raised awareness across Namayemba’s wider community and built the pipeline for future cohorts. The first cohort is never just the first cohort — it’s proof, and it’s an invitation to the next hundred young people watching.

How Namayemba adds up to 100,000

Here is the math that makes the mission real.

The bottleneck on youth employment in Uganda was never just training. It was distribution — reaching young people scattered across communities the formal economy forgot — and demand — making sure that once they’re skilled, there’s actual work waiting.

The Elevate Booth solves the distribution problem. Each Booth, hosted by a partner, extends our reach into a new community at a fraction of the cost and time of building a full hub. The Train → Employ → Finance engine solves the demand problem, connecting graduates to paid work, including hard-currency digital work for clients far beyond Uganda’s borders.

Put those together and 100,000 stops being a slogan and starts becoming arithmetic:

One model. Many partners. Many communities. Cohort after cohort.

Namayemba’s 102+ is the first data point on that curve. Multiply it across new communities and new partners — each one a place the world had written off — and the road to 100,000 skilled jobs comes into view, one rewritten story at a time.

That is what we are doing to make sure it happens. Not hoping for scale. Engineering it.

Bring an Elevate Booth to your community

If you lead an organization with deep roots in a community that the world has overlooked — and you believe its young people deserve a real shot at the modern economy — we should talk. The Elevate Booth model was built for partnership.

• Partner with us: Host an Elevate Booth in your community, powered by era92’s model.
• Support the mission: Help us fund the next Booth, and the next cohort of young people in it.
• Learn the model: See how the era92 Hub and the Train → Employ → Finance flywheel work.

Every Booth begins with a simple act of belief. Namayemba was someone’s act of belief. The next community is waiting for yours.

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to give you hope and a future.” — Jeremiah 29:11

Dream. Believe. Achieve.

Frequently asked questions

What is an era92 Elevate Booth? An Elevate Booth is era92’s satellite hub model — a local training node placed in a remote or underserved community and connected to era92’s main hub in Kampala. It gives young people in hard-to-reach areas access to the same curriculum, trainers, and Train → Employ → Finance pathway as learners in the city, without having to relocate.

Where is the Namayemba Elevate Booth? The AsOne Elevate Hub – Namayemba is located in Namayemba, a community in eastern Uganda. It was launched in partnership with AsOne Ministries.

Who is AsOne Ministries? AsOne Ministries is a faith-driven organization working to bring lasting change to rural Ugandan communities, one community at a time. They partner with era92 to host the Elevate Booth in Namayemba, providing local presence and a community home for the program.

What courses does the Namayemba Booth offer? The first cohort trained in Computer Basics, Graphics Design, and Web Development, with Web Design and Graphics as the two flagship courses.

What is era92’s “100,000 skilled jobs” mission? It’s era92’s mission to create 100,000 skilled jobs for young people across Uganda and Africa, by training youth in market-ready digital and creative skills and connecting them to real, paid work through the Train → Employ → Finance model. The Elevate Booth is the satellite model that makes reaching that number possible.

How can my organization partner with era92? If you’re rooted in an underserved community and want to bring skills training and economic opportunity to its young people, reach out about hosting an Elevate Booth. [Add contact link]