SURF is helping those children who dropped out school to look after siblings to acquire vocational skills which increase job opportunities. Vocational courses enable young adults to set up businesses or procure jobs which pay a living wage. A few such projects include: a restaurant, an internet café, a chicken farm and a piggery farming project.
 
 
Since 1997, over 2000 widow and orphan headed households have received grants from SURF for income generating activities such as farming and animal husbandry.