This project will train 200 women head of household in entrepreneurship; psychosocial, ethics,legal and working areas; and will provide a seed plan program, in order to empower them, helping them to be productive and sefl-sustaining. The project will take place in Cartagena, Colombia, specifically in the Olaya Herrera neighborhood.
The education and attention directed to the mothers who are heads of household in Cartagena city, denotes a deficiency, especially in those who are in sectors of high risk of vulnerability, in this case in the Olaya Herrera neighborhood; which are in unfavorable living conditions, submerged in poverty, having a low academic level, lack of job opportunities that difficult to generate resources for their support and so their family nucleus, being in that way violated their basic rights.
The activities and trainings on entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, ethics; the teaching of different trades, and the seed plan program, that will be taught to the 200 women heads of households, will give them the necessary tools to be productive, support themselves and their families, and improve their quality of life.
Through the training in different areas and topics given to these 200 women heads of households, they will not only be helped to be self-sustaining and productive, but these actions and learning will contribute in the reduction of unequal conditions in education and employment that affect the city of Cartagena, specially the Olaya Herrera neighborhood.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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