WCG101’s mission is to empower marginalized communities, with a focus on women and children, through enhanced educational programs and community training to promote equality, economic wellbeing and basic human rights.
Working towards women's empowerment enables you to support women in their pursuit of healthy and sustainable livelihoods. Women's groups provide a forum for issues such as family health, women's rights, and access to resources, income generation, and other challenges women face in their daily lives. Volunteers have the opportunity to exchange ideas, collaborate in ongoing projects, teach basic English skills, help with small businesses, and be a positive role model. You can also provide support in many other ways, depending on your skills and interests and the needs of the local community.
Women's Empowerment
Program at a glance:
"...I was motivated to work in the women’s care group program, and I was very impressed with the goals WCG101 had helped the women set. I was able to aid the much needed new staff in gathering information about the current situation faced by each group, so they could focus on the present needs of the individual groups giving them the attention they need. With the staff routinely checking up on all the groups to monitor progress and provide assistance in mitigating problems, I think future volunteers will likely be able to greatly help the groups when they come to volunteer for even a short amount of time..."Schroder August 10 to December 10, 2009 WCG101 has the following key programmes to empower the local women:
WCG101 runs women education classes in much needy communities. WCG101 has trained over 20 women in literacy classes in NOV 2009, which are taught by other local women and overseen by the women’s programme expert to help everyone learn to a good standard. Women need to be able to speak good English to access career options through the internet, through authentic materials in the English language and because companies prefer to employ people with good spoken English. The Local women then receive skills-orientated training so that they can generate some income through projects such as vegetable farming (organic and non organic), livestock, incense making, candle making, dry food making, hand crafts made at our work shop. They have regular meetings and save some money every month in their saving-credit groups. The women are also given training in organic agriculture to help the organic movement, which is labour intensive and to give people a chance to meet, talk, learn and exchange views with others in the movement. WCG101 will be indebted to any volunteers with experience in this area. The forage development project aims to save women time by having grass closer to hand to feed their animals, which is their major source of income Roles of Volunteers:
So WCG101 invites all interested national and international volunteers to be part of our women’s development programs. Come with expertise and help women learn or come with no expertise and learn together. Your small effort can make a big difference to women in the most marginalized communities!!! We do however request our volunteers to be flexible! It takes time for you to learn about the local women before you start your actual work and you need patience for that. Working in the community is not like a computer program, which is preset; you click and it works. You will be working with women of a totally different culture and lifestyle. Your steps will work slowly but sure works!. Program Availibility: CONTACT US Available |
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