307 Results Are Tagged With "Women and Girls Empowerment"

2016 is FGM year in Sebei, East Uganda!! Save a girl with Sports and Arts Today

My Dad My Hero-Breaching Customs Structuring Future is a global campaign to address the prevention of Child marriage by raising awareness at all levels to involve fathers for influencing decision making process at household level to decrease the number of child marriage incidences. The campaign is titled ?My Dad My Hero? to mobilize and involve men and boys as a key players to create sense of responsibility to combat child marriage. To achieve maximum goals, the campaign vision is to utilize digital media and modern communication tools to ensure that child marriage can be prevented by involving and educating fathers to defeat harmful tradition of early age marriage.

This project will recruit and train small groups of participants in Surakata to receive training and mentoring in enterprise development. The program will develop basic business skills, as well as more advanced business skills depending upon the abilities and experience of the targeted groups. The program will especially seek to recruit female and unemployed youth at the basic level of training and mentoring. Building capacity among existing businesses, combined with creating new business enterprises will help in poverty reduction in the country. By combining the three levels (micro, small, medium-size) of existing businesses with people who want to start a new business, synergies and networking can also occur. Indonesia, the fourth largest country in the world has a growing economy with many people who are very creative, resourceful, and hardworking. While the Indonesian economy has been growing recently at a steady rate, poverty reduction and business creation are needed. Creating new entrepreneurs and helping to grow existing businesses is needed for further economic development in the country.

"Iron Women": this multimedia project aims to find and to give voice to the women who ? despite all kinds of challenges in one of the most poor countries of the world ? give their own lives in benefit of the others. It?s all about share and learn on this impressive heritage that these women give to the world. Where are these Iron Women? Well, I?d bet in the districts, hospitals, churches, in the fields, ngo?s and more.