Gender Equality Kenya Project #30781

Fueling a Ripple Effect: Empowering Kenyan Women

by COMMUNITY PLATFORM FOR EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT (COPED)

Project Report | Sep 3, 2019
Empowerment Workshop

By Millicent Joash | Excecutive Director

Empowerment Workshop Report for Girls’ Club 1

Dates of Training: 15^th to 18^th April, 2019

Number of attendees: 28

Total Expenses: 965USD

INTRODUCTION

This report is for the training that was conducted for the female children of the disenfranchised women of Wuoth Ogik Village of Migori County, on the 15^th to 18^th April, 2019 for a period of four days. We invited all the girls and 56 girls turned up on the 15^th April, 2019. We then divided them into two classes because the number was too big for one empowerment workshop class. The first group started their workshop immediately for a period of 4 days as the second group was booked for the following week.

Our workshop went on so well and the girls were very excited to get a platform where they can air they views and let out their frustrations. The workshop helped them realize their own faults and also educated them on their own rights as young girls. At their tender age, they were able to assess their lives and be self-aware of who they are and that they have the power to create their lives exactly as they want it. They learnt how to envision the life they want and acquired the tools to manifest what they want to create.

Each of them left the workshop with at least one vision to work towards. They always blamed their inabilities and failures on other people especially their parents and teachers. They realised that this is being pathological and it only drains energy from them and makes them fail more. They chose to take self-responsibilities and to focus on possibilities and not impossibilities as this invigorates. Their eyes are fixed on their newly crafted visions and they are very happy to have got this intervention this early as it will help them even on making their career choices.

2.0 TARGET GROUP

This training focused on the daughters of the disenfranchised women of Wuoth Ogik Village of Migori County.

3.0 TRAINING OBJECTIVES

These were two-fold:

To examine the peculiar reasons for the participants’ disenfranchisement;
To take the said participants through the empowerment training model with the aim of helping the overcome their growing edges by envisioning and creating what they most want in life.

4.0 THE PROCESS

This entailed taking the participants over the seven life areas as prescribed by the empowerment methodology. The entire model was packaged as follows:

Day 1: Personal Growth Foundation

Day 2: Personal power, Emotions and Relationships

Day 3: Sexuality and the Body

Day 4: Money, work and Spirituality

5.0 CHALLENGES

These girls were of varied age groups and managing them together was not very easy. We had to draw varied examples that are relevant to all the age groups in order to make all of them comfortable and be able to understand.

These young girls view any adult talking to them on a subject as a teacher. They therefore take time to open up and speak their truth. This therefore took some extra efforts like, rewarding whoever contributes with a packet of biscuits.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Sustaining 28 young girls, with varied interests though the 4 days of the workshop successfully is a thing worth celebrating. They actually asked for more days to re do the workshop and this made us to promise them one more day the following week for reproductive health session. They went away really looking forward for the next session. This was a great achievement.
Each of them left the workshop able to envision what they want in different areas of life. They crafted visions in at least one of the seven areas of their lives and they committed to work towards their visions. We expect to see responsible young girls who are visionary in life. Those who act with purpose.
The girls were mobilized to start a girls’ club where they will meet every school holiday to share their progress and challenges. This will be a platform of expression and discussion where girls will discuss matters affecting them in relation to the empowerment workshop they experienced. They will be meeting at COPED offices where they will be attended to by one of the COPED trainers to take them through the session.

7.0 CONCLUSION

The training was successful because it met the objectives that had been set. We thank 100MHL for making this possible for us to achieve this.

RECOMMENDATIONS

There is need for regular meetings in order to assess the growth and to assist where necessary. This should be done every holiday period, April, August and December school holidays. This will be a platform to assess the progress of the girls and also to handle any challenges expressed. Peer support and consultation is also highly encouraged in order to sustain the application of the knowledge imparted and the skills given. These proposed meetings will provide this platform.

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Apr 22, 2019
EMPOWERMENT WORKSHOP FOR DISENFRANCHISED WOMEN

By Millicent Adhiambo Joash | executive director

Training Picture

Empowerment Training Report for

(Oriembo Dhier Women B Group)

Dates of Training: 18^h to 21st Feb, 2019

Location and Group Name: Oriembo Dhier B women Group

Lead Facilitator: Millicent Adhiambo Joash

Support Person: Marion Awuor Olang’

Number of attendees: 19

Total Expenses: 821 USD

1.0 INTRODUCTION

This is a report of the training that we conducted at Migori for disenfranchised women on the 18^th February, 2016 to 21^st February, 2019 for a period of four days. The training attracted 17 women and two men in total. It was not easy to get all the participants together as planned, conserving the varied personal schedules of the prospective participants. We ended up having the 19 of the 27 invited participants attending successfully to the end of the fourth day.

2.0 TARGET GROUP

This training focused on the disenfranchised women drawn from across Marindi village of Suna West constituency. Two men, being part of the women group, attended the training as well.

3.0 TRAINING OBJECTIVES

These were two-fold:

To examine the peculiar reasons for the women’s disenfranchisement;
To take the said women through the empowerment training model with the aim of helping the overcome their growing edges.

4.0 THE PROCESS

This entailed taking the participants over the seven life areas as prescribed by the empowerment methodology. The entire model was packaged as follows:

Day 1: Personal Growth Foundation

Day 2: Personal power, Emotions and Relationships

Day 3: Sexuality and the Body

Day 4: Money, work and Spirituality

5.0 CHALLENGES

These are women who come from the same community and thus it was not easy to bring these women to start sharing their experiences openly.

This training was done during rainy season and this means we had to stop training by 3.30 pm in order for people to try to get home before the rains.

At times it rained earlier even before we could finish training.

6.0 ACHIEVEMENTS

When the wellbeing survey form was administered, each of them had a chance to look at their lives and evaluate it on the scale that was provided. Most of the participants were doing this for the first time in their lives. They had never taken a break anytime to really look at where and how they were doing in their general lives. This activity served to awaken them to the reality of their lives and they were very happy to learn this in good time. They approached the workshop with enthusiasm wanting to learn how they can correct areas that needed correction and see themselves moving up the ladder.
We managed to bring these women to appoint of sharing openly and we had very good interactive sessions with them. Each of them developed vision in different areas of life. We expect to see great growth in these participants. As they work in the areas they committed to work on we expect to see a happier, healthier and energized group of women.
Apart from table banking activity, we also trained the women on how to make liquid soap. Some of them decided that they are taking up the liquid soap making as a business where they make it for sale.

7.0 CONCLUSION

The training was successful because it met the objectives that had been set. We thank 100MHL for making this possible.

8.0 RECOMMENDATIONS

The participants need to be followed up in order to assess their respective growths over time. The assessment tools include wellbeing survey forms, among others.
Peer support and consultation is highly encouraged in order to sustain the application of the knowledge imparted and the skills given. The table banking activity introduced in the group could provide the motivation for the support group to keep meeting as we aspire to achieve optimum personal growth.

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Jan 9, 2019
EMPOWERMENT WORKSHOP FOR DISENFRANCHISED WOMEN F

By Millicent Adhiambo Joash | Executive Director

Empowerment Training Report for Group F

(Namba Women Group)

Dates of Training: 19^th to 22^nd June, 2018

Location and Group Name: Namba Women Group

Lead Facilitator: Millicent Adhiambo Joash

Support Person: Marion Olang’

Number of attendees: 28

Total Expenses: 954.8 USD

1.0 INTRODUCTION

This is a report of the training that we conducted at Migori for disenfranchised women on the 19^th to 22^nd February 2018 for a period of four days. These are women got to learn about the Empowerment workshop from the beneficiaries. they noticed that the groups already trained had something different from them because they started growing very fast and they could see the outcomes within a very short time. They requested to be trained and we asked them to mobilize 30 participants. 28 women turned up on the first day and managed to attend the empowerment workshop consistently for the four days. This became a very special group as it had only two invited participants failing to attend but with permission to attend to something pressing. The women after the workshop were very happy and confessed that this is the best thing that has ever happened to them. They pledged to start doing things differently and they started immediately by converting their merry go round to a table banking project immediately.

2.0 TARGET GROUP

This training focused on the disenfranchised women drawn from across Namba village of Suna West constituency.

3.0 TRAINING OBJECTIVES

These were two-fold:

To examine the peculiar reasons for the women’s disenfranchisement;
To take the said women through the empowerment training model with the aim of helping the overcome their growing edges.

4.0 THE PROCESS

This entailed taking the participants over the seven life areas as prescribed by the empowerment methodology. The entire model was packaged as follows:

Day 1: Personal Growth Foundation

Day 2: Personal power, Emotions and Relationships

Day 3: Sexuality and the Body

Day 4: Money, work and Spirituality

5.0 CHALLENGES

I had to use the Kiswahili and Dholuo interchangeably in order to reach out to all the participants a like. This was so because some participants did not understand Kiswahili while others couldn’t also understand Dholuo. There was need therefore to use two different languages to address all of them.

Some of the women had commitments elsewhere as it is not possible to really get time that is convenient to everyone invited. We therefore could not get everyone invited on board. We ended up with 23 participants out of the 30 invited.

6.0 ACHIEVEMENTS

Managing to use two different languages at the same time was a real achievement. It was an experience of its own kind.
Maintaining the attendance of 23 participants from day 1 to day 4 four is something to celebrate. They were excited to attend and get to discover more for themselves.
When the wellbeing survey form was administered, each of them had a chance to look at their lives and evaluate it on the scale that was provided. Most of the participants were doing this for the first time in their lives. They had never taken a break anytime to really look at where and how they were doing in their general lives. This activity served to awaken them to the reality of their lives and they were very happy to learn this in good time. They approached the workshop with enthusiasm wanting to learn how they can correct areas that needed correction and see themselves moving up the ladder.
Each of the women developed vision in different areas of life. As they work in the areas they committed to work on we expect to see a happier, healthier and energized group of women.
The women were introduced and helped to start table banking as an activity. This is to help them implement some of the learnings done concerning money and work.
Women were also trained on how to make liquid soap. Some of them decided that they are taking up the liquid soap making as a business where they make it for sale. Such women now have something to celebrate because their business is doing well.

7.0 CONCLUSION

The training was successful because it met the objectives that had been set. We thank 100MHL for making this possible.

8.0 RECOMMENDATIONS

The participants need to be followed up in order to assess their respective growths over time. The assessment tools include wellbeing survey forms, among others.
Peer support and consultation is highly encouraged in order to sustain the application of the knowledge imparted and the skills given. The table banking activity introduced in the group could provide the motivation for the support group to keep meeting as we aspire to achieve optimum personal growth.

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Training_Expenditure_report_F.docx (DOCX)

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