Priority Theme: Women's Economic Power and the Changing World of Work
1. Sponsoring Organization:
Nation to Nation Networking
2. Region (where your organization primarily works)
Africa
3. Parallel Event Title by Nation to Nation Networkng:
Empowering Urban Women with their health and well-being for themselves, their children and their families through small business enterprises.
4. Brief Description:
Urban Third World women can particpate in their repective countries' economies through small scale businesses, either with home-based enterprises or by catering to specific businesses in their communties, in order to manage their own and their famlies financial health and well-beng.
Women have talented skills in typically female activties such as cooking and sewing. Through well-managed projects they can provde meals and food items for local restaurants, hotels and private homes by selling their products for proft to further beneft their own homes and families.
Special workshops and training sessions can be set up to help these women with:
- business enterprises
- healthy and wholesome cooking faclties and methods
- hygiene
- food storage and transporation techniques
- financial management of the enterprises
- Mentorship and guidance
5. Demostrate/Explain How topic directly relates to theme selected:
Women are having to contribute to the financial well-being of their families more and more. But many are still juggling home-care with earning wages for their families. The small-business enterprises described above will use the home-based skills and knowledge they have already mastered so that they can generate income. They will be able to contribute their earnings towards their famlies' household income, pulling them out of poverty and dependence. These women will be able to participate in the changing world of work, which puts them in the forefront of their families' economic activity by giving them important economic powers.
6. What does your NGO currently do in this area:
Abby - fill in the blank to describe your actitvies currently.
7. Date Preference:
2nd Week: March 20-24
8. Number of Partcpatns Attendng:
20, 35, 70, 100, 150, 200
9. Will need to rent a projector:
yes, no
10. Name of person responsible for the organization:
Abaynesh Asrat
11. Title of person responsible for the organization:
President and CEO
12. Phone number of person responsible for the organization:
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