Our project will establish an agribusiness and entrepreneurship center in eastern DRC to provide free training on agriculture, small-scale farming, agribusiness and entrepreneurship to women and girls traumatized by gender-based violence and corona virus. This project will provide free training to 100 women and girls from twenty women-led organizations to gain skills, knowledge and know how to face economic crisis caused by COVID-19 and Gender-Based Violence.
Years of GBV and CORONA outbreak in the DRC have undermined food security for many people in the country, and led to poverty and hunger. Women and girls have been the most affected by GBV and covid-19. To help address these problems, Food and Livestock Initiative will work to create a violence-free society in which food security will be ensured for all people. The project will provide sustainable agriculture training and entrepreneurial capacity building to women affected by GBV in eastern DRC
By receiving the funds, we will train young women and girls traumatized by GBV and COVID-19 in eastern DRC on agriculture, small-scale farming, agribusiness and entrepreneurship, and marketable skills to accelerate their socioeconomic participation. The training sessions include urban and rural agriculture lessons, corn crops and potato farming; pastry lessons; integration of 100 women and girls affected by the pandemic of on the local market and direct investment to beneficiaries.
Our project will provide sustainable agricultural training and entrepreneurial capacity building to 100 women and girls affected by COVID-19 and Gender-Based Violence in the eastern DRC, from twenty women-led organizations, which will help them build economic resilience and stay out of poverty and hunger. Knowledgeable women and girls will successfully launch their own ventures and become self-resilient and self-assured.