Gender Equality Rwanda Project #44873

Empower 200 Rwandan Girls To Move Out Of Poverty

by Aspire Rwanda

Empower 200 Rwandan Girls To Move Out Of Poverty

Project Report | Jan 15, 2024
Benefits of Developing Vocational Skills In Girls

By Rodrigue S. | Project Leader

Dear Donors,

We are happy to share with you this quaterly report, Aspire Rwanda have been enrolled and sponsored new beneficiaries for this project.

The enrolled beneficiaries were explained and discussed the benefits of gaining the technical skills. The graduates took their time and explained to them that there are many benefits of developing vocational skills in young girls. Not only will they learn valuable life skills, but they will also build confidence and self-esteem. Vocational skills also teach responsibility, discipline, self-reliance, and perseverance. These skills help them become independent adults who can support themselves.

Vocational skills are those skills that help people earn a living. For example, a person who has developed vocational skills could work in a garage repair cars or in a restaurant kitchen, a woodshop, or fixing household appliances etc...

In many areas, vocational training has been limited to boys and men – having women in these fields is ground-breaking and essential to moving to a more equitable workforce. At Our project, we include vocational education as part of the curriculum for our beneficiaries to complement their learning and expand their potential.

Vocational education will provide them with occupational or work-related awareness, knowledge, skills, and attitude. And prepared them to work as a technician or to take up employment in a skilled craft or trade as a tradesperson or artisan. Vocational Education will prepare them to be gainfully employed or self-employed with the requisite skills.

Aspire graduates mentored them and mentioned also to the young people enrolled that job training for the young population makes it possible to Strengthen their ability to work in a team, Boost their ability to learn continuously, Help them to form their first professional networks, Support young people to start their professional life and outline a career plan, Contribute to strengthening their entry into formal employment.

Three key advantages of vocational education for young girls are:

Lower chances of unemployment: Unemployment affects young women more than young men. Acquiring vocational skills can help girls have better chances at landing a job, becoming self-employed, or starting an apprenticeship that can lead to a better job in the future.

Learning and executing these practical skills set their future to be much more positive, opening up opportunities to be employed in secure, stable, and profitable jobs where they can continue developing their skills and potential.

Provide security: Vocational skills allow girls to create a source of income by allowing them to earn money through their skills and knowledge, reducing their chances of poverty and improving their quality of life. But being able to provide for themselves and their families goes beyond just making a profit; it also means creating security for them.

Poverty and financial instability are widely detrimental to young girls, affecting their physical and mental health in multiple ways and posing a great challenge to their development and wellbeing. Lacking income also makes them prone to early marriage and unions in search of stability, which puts them in a tough position and, in the worst-case scenario, at the risk of experiencing violence and abuse.

Learn valuable soft skills :Soft skills are also key to developing a good professional base and are highly appreciated by companies and recruiters.

Investing in transferable skills development can bring great benefits to individuals, their families, and the country. It can help to increase social cohesion and achieve greater economic development at the national and regional level; build more egalitarian societies; promote sustainable economic growth and job placement for adolescents; achieve better academic outcomes; and reduce social risks.

By learning vocational skills, girls are also developing soft skills that create opportunities such as communication skills, interpersonal skills, managerial skills, negotiation skills, and networking skills which help these girls increase their chances of getting a job or starting their own small business.

It has even been proven that vocational training contributes to the reduction of teenage pregnancies. In addition to improving cognitive skills and self-esteem.

At the end of this project, the young girls is expecting to have a better life in 2 years, owning a business, or getting the desired job increased significantly.

We encourage you to donate monthly here. Even a few dollars a month will go a long way. Please also share this with your contacts and invite them to consider supporting this ongoing project.

With great appreciation

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Sep 16, 2023
Strong Girls, Strong Communities

By Rodrigue S. | Project Leader

We thank you so much all donors who are supporting in fundraising the money needed to support project activiities

Aspire Rwanda believes:

Girls’s empowerment is important in its own right. No single group of people is more disempowered and excluded around the world than women.

.Girls’s empowerment can help overcome global poverty. Poverty is the result of powerful social structures that marginalize and exclude entire groups of people. Aspire is part of the growing consensus – along with practitioners and academics – that believes increased, and better targeted, investments in women and girls will advance the effort to end global poverty.

Women’s Empowerment – Not Just for Women

When Aspire Rwanda discusses its Girl’s empowerment framework, and the centrality of women’s empowerment to ending poverty, the question is often raised. What about men – why are they excluded? In fact, Aspire Rwanda’s women’s empowerment work in no way excludes men. Aspire’s research concluded, in part, that “…the theory of empowerment presupposes that good analysis of power and gender are crucial rather than optional, and that a programmatic focus only on women– rather than more expansively on gender and, therefore, men and women together .Global evidence suggests that male and female citizens of more equitable societies are, on average, wealthier, healthier and better educated than in countries where women are most marginalized.

Aspire Rwanda supported the beneficiaries being empowered iin LIFE & VOCATIONAL SKILLS PROGRAMS. Our young women empowerment/education package involves activities like;

Hairdressing and salon management; Here our young women aretrained in the lucrative hands-on hairdressing business which gives them a skill they can use to get employment or work on their own

Crafts Lessons; with crafts, our women are trained in the art of making jewelry, handbags, purses, sandals and decorative artifacts.

Tailoring; here, sewing and making clothes and bags is taught.

Housekeeping. This is very important knowledge in the life of women and should be taught to every young woman. While at the shelter, the young women learn to properly keep and maintain plus plan for home. The basics of how to clean, wash, dust and cook is all taught.

Business Management is another component of our women empowerment/education package. While the girls are trained in making crafts, hairdressing, and tailoring, business management comes in handy as they embark on the journey to sell and make items for sell and to handle customers from our walks of life.

Beginner English Lessons are also important especially to a young woman who didn’t finish early education but aspires to broaden her knowledge. And as we know it, English is Uganda’s official

Health & Reproduction classes. These are taught as a vital component in the life of a growing young woman. Sexual Reproductive Health & Rights topics are handled. These life and vocational skills trainings and lessons are compulsory to all the women.

We encourage you to donate monthly here. Even a few dollars a month will go a long way. Please also share this with your contacts and invite them to consider supporting this ongoing project..

Thank you, and May God bless you.

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May 19, 2023
Discovering the barriers and unlock the setback

By Rodrigue S. | Project Leader

Dear Donors,

We are happy to share with you this quaterly report, the trainees have been sensitized with social and health trainings.The sensitizations outlined below occurred in this quarter:

Reproductive Health:

. 41 trainees attended the training

. The session covered artificial methods used in family planning such as pills, injections and female and male condoms

. Trainees understood how to use all the methods covered and were also able to ask questions and dispel rumors they had heard about these methods.

Breast Cancer:

. 42 trainees attended this session

. The session raised awareness on breast cancer and the importance of early detection. Trainees were also taught how to conduct a self-examination and those who wanted got an exam from trainers. There were no anomalies detected

Worker’s Rights:

. 41 trainees attended the 2 sessions.

. Trainees learned the responsibilities of employers and employees, the definition of a contract and types of contracts, as well as leave rights and retirement

. Trainees were able to look and review different contracts and understand the binding agreements

.Trainees liked the sessions as this was new information to them (very few have signed a work contract before) or were even aware of workers’ rights.

First Aid Training:

. 44 Trainees attended both sessions.

. They learned how to take care of nose bleeds, fractures, bleeding injuries in an emergency, and also how to prevent people from choking

. The first session covered the theory while the second session was more practice based.

. Trainees enjoyed the session as most of the techniques were new to them and very informative.

Sexually transmitted diseases:

. 41 trainees attended the session

. It covered diseases such as HIV/AIDS, gonorrhoea chlamydia, hepatitis B, and herpes

. It also covered protection, safe sex practices, and prevention

. Trainees were able to ask any questions they wanted and receive guidance from the social worker

Human Trafficking:

. 40 trainees attended the session. They learned about human trafficking and the most common ways it is practiced.

. The session also covered ways to avoid human trafficking and also ways to assist a person suspected to be a victim.

Cervical Cancer Training

. 42 trainees attended the session

. Trainees learned about cervical cancer focusing on the signs and symptoms as well as prevention

Job Preparedness:

. 41 trainees attended this session.

. Aspire invited a mentor who owns a business and has hired two interns from Aspire came to give a pep talk to the trainees.

. She advised them to apply to as many places as possible and to not be afraid to go around with their resumes and cover letters and give them out

. She also encouraged them to be willing to start humble.

. She also insisted on the need to be professional at all times including respecting time and alerting a supervisor in a timely fashion if an issue arises.

We encourage you to donate monthly here. Even a few dollars a month will go a long way. Please also share this with your contacts and invite them to consider supporting this ongoing project.

With great appreciation

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