Project Report
| Mar 25, 2014
Workshop on Story Digital Telling
By FELICITE RWEMARIKA | Executive Director
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Women in training workshop
WORKSHOP ON STORY DIGITAL TELLING
WOMEN WIN in Partnership with AKWOS organized a 5-days workshop on the story digital telling which helped AKWOS members to testify their experience concerning Gender-Based Violence in a very short time. The workshop sessions were held in Akwos offices at Amahoro Nation Stadium. The participants have benefited from the skills of 2 Women Win agents and they really appreciate the subject. They were trained on recording their stories so that in case they need to listen to their testimony or send it to other people they can show them how they overcame the bad experience using Sports as a tool. During the training they could do exercises recording some of their regular experience with young girls.The training was done by using Audacity application as a tool. among trainees there were AKWOS coaches from different district across our country. So as to conclude the workshop, AKWOS Executive Director thanked a lot WOMEN WIN for their good partnership and called AKWOS members who were trained to use the gained knowledge into practice in order to go on being the voice of young girls and women in fighting GBV.
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Some AKWOS Coaches participated in the workshop
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Dec 20, 2013
Women Bicycle riding Competition to promote Agriculture
By FELICITE RWEMARIKA | Executive Director of AKWOS
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Rural women riding bicycles
AKWOS organized Women Bicycle ride competition. The theme was the Role of Sports to promote Women in Agriculture sector to build up their economical empowerment. It took place on 28th November 2013 in the Eastern province for 50 women in different agriculture cooperatives. This attracted about 3000 people both men and women who came to cheer up the women riding bicycles.
Women gave testimonies on how far they have gone to fight poverty and to become self-independent. They mentioned that sports has been a great value for their self-estim health, teamwork and promote unity and reconciliation.
The local leader expressed their gratitude to AKWOS for empowering women in rural areas and giving them support both technically, morally and physically.
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Women develop into Agriculture Cooperatives
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Rural women build up their economical empowerment
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Aug 9, 2013
To stregthen the capacitiy for Women through sports for social change
By Felicite RWEMARIKA | Executive Director of AKWOS
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Participants during the workshop
A workshop was organized by AKWOS in the Western Province, Ngororero District for 32 women who are sexual workers and representing 234 others coming from 5 local Sectors. These women are between the age of 16-30 old. Their life is so hard that they have various difficulties
- Many of them have given birth at early age and illegally and live the children with their grandmothers who also live in poverty level.
- A great number of these women abandoned schools early
- Almost all of them are infected with HIV/AIDS.
- Others are victims different kinds of gender based violence.
The training took 3 days after which they elected their representative committee on each Sector. This will facilitate AKWOS to keep following their situation and provide them with all possible support.
We encouraged them to join sports for self-confidence and hope for the future by interacting with different categories of people.
Practically, AKWOS will advocate for these women for their empowerment. for example:
- To go back to school and continue their studies
- To do some income generating activities such as hair-style treatment, animal husbandry, and cultivation…
- To create sports teams and get sports equipments
- To get more trainings on various themes such as Gender-based Violence, Children rights and Women rights, Reproductive Health, Fighting HIV/AIDS, Coaching, Self-employment, etc.
AKWOS will work with the local leaders to find out how we can improve their daily life for their development and their country’s at large.
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The local governor with AKWOS Representative
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AKWOS Representative talking to participants
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