Empower 200 Rwandan Girls To Move Out Of Poverty

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.