Women Empowerment
Background
Uganda has almost half of the people living below the poverty line. Especially women suffer from discrimination and male domination in the society: Early pregnancies, arranged marriages and school dropouts are the most common reasons that led the women into the poverty circle from which they are unable to escape on their own.
Why Women?
Women Can Change The World
Given the chance, women can play a critical role in solving the most persistent development problems facing the world today. By investing in girls’ education, preventing early marriage and teen pregnancy, issues such as HIV and AIDS can be resolved and the cycle of poverty can be broken. It’s not about prioritising girls over boys (in fact, we do lots of work with boys and men in the community), it’s about working with all members of the community to level the playing field and tackle inequality.
The “Empowering Young Women and Girls” Project
The “Empowering Young Women and Girls” project aims to provide about 100 young women and girls from remote villages with education and starting capital to help them improve their lives.
Integrated Empowerment of the Young Women and the Community
On the one hand, the women are provided with trainings that empower them for their daily life and their future, such as family planning and personal hygiene. Also the surrounding of the women (partner, family, and community) are integrated in the trainings. This is essential to root the knowledge effectively in the cultural environment.
On the other hand, the women are provided with economic education. Depending on their talents, experiences and professional goals they are clustered into groups for individual training on, e.g. agriculture, saloon work or tailoring. They are assisted to develop their own project ideas and raise their own startups. To get started they get the needed starting material, e.g. tailoring machines and cloth. Through this they should be able to secure a basic income that makes them financially independent in the long term.
In the trainings as well as in the group collaborations, the women benefit from sharing experiences with each other. They are motivated to strive for their goals together. This strengthens their self-confidence and the team spirit.
Enabling women to be independent and closing the gender inequality gap in society.
Shubaika Islamic Charity has a keen interest in women’s economic empowerment initiatives that cut across all aspects of their lives, enabling them to be independent, and close the gender inequality gap in their societies. The organization participates in women’s economic empowerment initiatives with a belief that when women are empowered and take on leadership roles, they are powerful agents of change in the communities who work together to enhance health, end hunger, and overcome hardship.
Increasing the awareness on the conditions affecting mothers & their born/unborn children.
Through mother and child health interventions we seek to enhance service provision services, increase awareness and improve outcomes for conditions affecting mothers and their born or unborn children. We provide informal education to mothers about maternal and infant nutrition needs, prenatal and postnatal care, and safe birth practices so they can take control of their own well-being and purposefully determine positive health outcomes of the next generation. We understand that improving the well-being of mothers and children is an important public health goal for Uganda and the globe.
Implementation and funding
We are in direct contact with the targeted women and we give them professional training. Depending on the initiative they include experts on other fields, e.g. technicians, farmers and engineers, who conduct the projects.
