At least 80 women and girls in different communities who do not have any support and training skills such as women, and girls who have been sexually abused and chased out from home, after 12 months will learn tailoring and how to run a small tailoring business on their own. Women and girls enter the course not knowing the basics; they leave with a means to a livelihood and the capacity to provide for their own families sewing needs.
Many women and girls are victims of different violence and after they are rejected by their husband, families societies and communities. They have no where to stay, nothing to eat and cannot access the basic needs. As consequence they have been for many times victims of the sexual abuse, sexual transmitted diseases, forced prostitution, unwanted pregnancies and faced discrimination by the whole community. Most of the rural women in Bombali district are uneducated, socially and economically weak
During the tailoring course, women and girls learn to compute budgets for clothing and savings from making their own clothes. They learn to design and make a variety of clothes. Health, peace, and women's rights lessons are also taught during class.
Women and girls learn to save money they would have spent on clothes in order to purchase more sewing machines and start a small business. Course graduates sew their family's clothes, start a basic business, and/or become sewing teachers. Our sewing graduates will become sewing teacher for other survivors of violence. They have to teach 25 students every day. The students will be happy to have them as their teacher and will be learning many things each day from their fellow survivors.
