This project consists of: - Providing technical training to 125 women and girls on establishing small-scale businesses and IGA activities. - Strengthening socio-economic resilience and economic empowerment through gender-sensitive livelihood initiatives and IGA. - Providing each woman and girl with a simple dignity kit for her monthly hygiene. - Providing each woman an and girl with small financial support to improve her socio-economic situation through IGA. - Capacity development and coaching.
According to UN News, more than 600,000 people displaced by 30 November 2024 in North Kivu province, DRC. Many others fled two years ago and are currently living in IDPs' sites near Goma. Their life is really critical that it increases poverty, malnutrition, lack of education for children, sexual gender-based violence, etc. This project comes to respond to social and economic situation of 125 women and girls in five selected sites.
The 125 women and girls will receive $100 each for Income-Generating Activity (IGA). They will also be coached during one year by Blessed Aid's staff. They will be selected from Rego, Lwashi, 8eme CEPAC/Mugunga, Buhimba, Lushagala and Bulengo sites. Those who were, for example, members of the Village Savings and Loans Association program (VSLA) which were supported two years ago by Blessed Aid at Shasha and Kirotshe villages in Masisi territory.
The project will address the socio-economic situation of 125 women and girls who had fled the war between the FARDC and the M23 and who are currently in the displaced sites of Rego, Lwashi, 8th CEPAC, Lushagala, Buhimba and Bulengo. The project will help them rise out of poverty, malnutrition, education and provide good healthcare to their children. All the 125 women and girls as well as their families will improve their socio-economic situation through Income-Generating Activities.
This project has provided additional documentation in a XLSX file (projdoc.xlsx).
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