Objectives
ObjectivesKey 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.
GOALS
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 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.
