Through this project, 25 selected young women will receive a six-month intensive training on entrepreneurship, leadership, mental health, and financial literacy. This will help them to venture in income generating activities and be bold enough to seek further opportunities from micro finance institutions. Two best performers will receive scholarship to go enhance their skills in bags making in Uganda in collaboration with Girls 'economic empowerment coalition and be trainers of their peers.
In Rwanda, Gender inequality is reflected through gaps in equal pay and the inaccessibility of social and economic opportunities for women. There is an apparent need to empower women to improve their socioeconomic status. Through the work we do in the community, we realized several barriers to economic empowerment for rural young girls and women including lower levels of female employment, lack of confidence, lower participation in decision-making spaces, lack of girls' agency, and lack of entre
Generation Rise continue to create opportunities for young women to not only acquire skills they need to be able to lift themselves from poverty but to also be bold enough to start exploring ways to benefiting from existing micro finance institutions. Through this victorious woman project, a selected group of 25 young women will receive a six-month intensive training on entrepreneurship, leadership, and small business for them to feel equipped and ready to venture in income generating activities
The project will educate 25 young women allowing them to rise out of poverty, which will not only benefit them but it will also help their families and community at large. The majority of selected women are single mothers and this project will ultimately allow them to support their children's future through education and well-being.
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