By Ileana Leyba de Villegas | Project Coordinator. JA Venezuela Exec. Director
Connecting our program with the purpose of completing at least one cohort before Christmas time, we have reached a powerful alliance with Soroptimists, a group of professional women who dedicate time and efforts to provide women with knowledge to be productive although they had not reached high school or a professional career due to lack of resources, most of them from low income classes. Once they finish their classes, we have begun with our Women Entrepreneur for development program.
As per this alliance we have began our training addressed that we hope to complete around December 14. A group of 21 women are attending these classes which we have decided to initiate although we have not received yet the donations obtained until we complete a bigger amount in deposits in order to be able to absorb and justify banks transfer cost involved in this sending. However, we have taken this challenge in a positive mood, honoring a unique donor who has been depositing a small amount month to month for our intention to present him with a certificate for him to believe and be confident towards our work.
Women ages go from 17 to 77, all of them are oriented to success, although most of them experience strong daily problems in a a country, like ours, are struggling with very limited income, produce failures and increasing economic problems the country has gone through along since 1997, 20 years to date. In moments such as the ones we are experiencing our work cannot stop, many venezuelans are leaving the their homes and the country looking forward to obtain a better quality of life, but this dream of a new life cannont be achieved without preparation and with documents in order, so we focus our efforts in providing women the opportunity to be productive, remaining in the country based on new and different abilities to cope with poverty. This is part of our mission, make them believe in their own capacities teaching them how to organize their talents to manufacture products or provide services to others. We each them, mainly, to believe in themselves and elevate their self steem for them to be assertive and productive.
We hope to continue with our job for a long time, and to retribute our donors keeping them satisfied and informed on our advancements in this sense.
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