This project seeks to support the economic resilience of refugee women around Goma DRC to acquire livelihood activities such as Handcraft, small business, learning a life-skill and helping them to access available opportunities. This will therefore expand their protection space especially that they do not benefit assistance from Humanitarian Organizations which have completely forgotten about these vulnerable refugee women. The most vulnerable will be the priority such as the victims of rape.
Refugee women and young girls are most vulnerable people in communities as they do not have livelihood opportunities, cannot access to land, and they are highly excluded and discriminated. Because also of the language barrier and have been affected by wars in the host country , many are victims of all forms of sexual abuses, others in order to survive resorted to commercial sex while others are just sexual slaves. They continue to be victims of all kinds of sexual transmitted diseases and HIV.
We have developed a Refugee Women Economic Model which aims at empowering them. It is about putting them in a group of 20 and discover what they can do together individually or as a group, we give them the necessary to start the business and the supervise them. The money they get is divided into two 50% is managed by themselves in order to solve their social problems while the other 50% is managed by the organization in order to support others and for the continuity of the projects they doing.
In long-term this project seeks to develop and empower refugee women economically in order to make them able to respond positively to their basic needs, when that is done then they can also focus on other community issues through strong leadership roles, access education to refugee women and also ensure that their children are protected and have access to education in their communities. It will change the attitude of the communities about them, help them to access health services,and feel safe
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
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