In 2019 the Ecuadorian National Institute of Statistics and Census reported that 64.9% of women have suffered from any type of violence throughout their life and 42.8% violence from their respective partners. World Change Makers Academy Bootcamp will train 30 women survivors from violence to empower themselves by visualizing their situation, influencing their personal reconstruction and guiding them into options to be autonomous from their partners, breaking the circle of poverty and violence.
Women survivors of violence with who we pretend to work with depend economically on their partner or other people; therefore, without their help they wouldn't be able to support themselves or their children, buy food, medicines or clothes for them. Most of the time they don't know how to effectively use the money or resources they have to minimize that dependency. Women who depend directly from someone else are vulnerable to suffer also from psychological, physical and sexual violence.
We search to empower these women to become change makers of their own reality and their community, reason why this program offers them access to technical tools, networks, specialized mentorships, funding sources, financial credits, and seed capital. Women will learn how to use responsibly and invest money and available resources to create self-sustaining opportunities and explore productive options that could contribute to the local economy.
-Women must be able to identify possible income sources to become independent. -To achieve at least one feasible business idea for the community -Strategic alliances with local leaders and authorities: so we can replicate the project in other communities and align our intervention with the local government work plan. -Involvement of public institutions: SETEJU supports young entrepreneurs to access to soft credits.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
