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Objectives

Objectives

Key Issues of our work are:

  •  Human rights awareness to women on issues pertaining to property ownership,equal opportunities, equity and equality through paralegal education.
  • Economic empowerment of women through training on identification and management of income generating activities to enable them to be self-reliant.
  • Establishment of linkage or access to micro-credit schemes which will empower women economically through training and organising them into credit worthy groups, that can qualify for loans or start-up funds for viable businesses for Income Generating Activities (IGA).
  • Gender issues, and matters of law enforcement as they relate to the vulnerable groups and especially the girl-child concerning her education and marriage.
  • Stop stigma and discrimination for People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), especially rejection by the husbands when women test HIV positive.

Our group is assisting women in the following categories:

  • The widows – these are those who have been left without any means of livelihood and are facing difficulties in raising their facilities.
  • Victims of domestic violence – many are those who are displaced or psychologically, physically and spiritually affected by the violence from their spouses or their relatives.
  • Single parents – those who have given birth to several children and are not married and do not have any sustainable source of income.
  • Caregivers – these are those who have been left with the responsibility of caring for the orphaned children, sometimes without choice.
  • People living with HIV/AIDS – including those women who are ignorant about their status and rights.

 Gender relations are affected by social, cultural, and economic factors. Culture is the collective consciousness of a people and is shaped by a sense of shared history, language and psychology. Beliefs and knowledge about HIV/AIDS become the focus of culturally appropriate knowledge.

  • We work in the Luo community and the Luo custom for example does not allow their widows to remarry elsewhere; she has to be inherited within the family.
  • This is based on the fact that women are generally exogamous and must be socialised within the community within which they got married. What is so amazing is that widow inheritance has taken a commercial trend with what we call “joter”, meaning inheritors. These are a strange breed of men of very low social standing , who are getting paid to have sex with the widow as part of a wider cleansing ceremony, before she is finally taken over by a family member.
  • This is a traditional or customary practice that is quite harmful as it plays a role in the spread of HIV/AIDS. In this scenario, the “joter” might be infected, the family member taking over her after cleansing might be infected or the widow might they are inhering might be infected if her husband died of AIDS.
  • To the disadvantaged woman who does not know her rights and succumbs to the traditional ills will find herself in such a situation, which eventually endangers her life. These people therefore need education on the dangers of being infected by HIV/AIDS should they adopt such a careless attitude. Furthermore, widows living with the HIV virus need to be protected to live positively with the virus.
  • That without legal awareness and civic education as part of the overall strategy of education as a major instrument for economic and social development, women will continue to suffer through gender imbalance.
  • That women and men working together for economic development will boost the economy of the nation, thus alleviate poverty of the community and contribute to economic growth through increased acquisition skills, attitudes and accumulation of  knowledge.
  • That it is not possible to deal with violence against women without challenging the basis of the political, economic, socio-cultural organisations of the society.
  • This will help the community to be capable of exercising their rights and duties effectively and responsibly while making them conscious  of their obligation to do so.
  • That this will help women get democracy in the public and private sphere, democracy in the home and in the country. Democracy that questions and seeks alternative answers to equality.
  • This will help women fight and eradicate ignorance and self-esteem that prevents them from taking control of their lives and circumstances.
  • This project will pass certain messages, information, knowledge, attitudes and skills to both women and men, which is hoped to enhance equal distribution of opportunities and rights.
  • This project will instill a sense of responsibility and duty in the individual members of the communities and in the fight against harmful and discriminatory practices.

 

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GOALS

Our organisations purpose is to create an environment of an informed citizenry who actively and responsibly participate in the process of good governance and eradication of gender imbalance in order to improve and promote the future quality and  sustainability of womens rights and development . We are preparing the community to be able to obtain the right information and means of preventing HIV/AIDS by educating them to achieve awareness of womens rights as human rights and ways of enforcing them into practice through legal awareness and economic empowerment.

  • Our goal is to have a community where men and women are participating on equal footing in property ownership and distribution of opportunities and the vulnerable members of the society are given holistic care and support for the improvement of their lives, and the society at large.
  • The organisation has a membership of 30 women and its reaching over 1000 women effectively. Our organisation is a national Non-Governmental Organisation. We work locally and nationally.
  • We are currently in 6 districts of Kenya, namely Nairobi, Kisumu, Migori, Homa Bay, Rachuonyo and Siaya. We are networking with other women's groups in other areas not currently covered where the need for our services are even greater due to the prevailing economic status and the need for legal awareness in those rural areas of the country.
  • Our Primary beneficiaries are women because they reach all other facets of the society.

Our group's objectives were expanded so there was an obvious need to initiate legal awareness through paralegal education aiming at community awareness and transformation of their beneficiaries, empowering the women to achieve economic independence through Income Generating Activities (IGA), initiate institutionalised affirmative action that enables women to participate in the processes with male leaders. Recognition of them as partners in decision making, stakeholders and beneficiaries is an objective which aims to institutionalise awareness raising and measures towards preventing any more violence against women, and capacity building through training/workshops/seminars and exchange visits for the project participants and beneficiaries.

 

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