Project
Improved self-reliance of women and out of school girls
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Amount Funded
25,000 EUROProject Duration
01 Nov 2018 - 31 Oct 2020 -
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Lead organisation
Genogen Women in Development Organisation (GWIDO)
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Genogen Women in Development Organisation (GWIDO) is a community-based organisation (CBO) working with women in Nebbi District. Championed by Roseline Nyakwo, who noticed that more and more women and girls approached her for training and that many who had passed through her training had been successful.
GWIDO runs a 4-month apprenticeship programme during which women and girls are trained in tailoring, knitting, and designing of garments. The organisation targets to enroll more women every year and has expanded the curriculum to include life skills and basic entrepreneurship training.
Initially, the organisation started as a merry-go-round where members would contribute funds in a rotation to a person. This grew to a more formalised savings scheme where the group would contribute funds on a weekly basis and share out at the end of the savings cycle, with members acquiring loans during the savings cycle.
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Organisation
Genogen Women in Development Organisation (GWIDO) is a community-based organisation (CBO) working with women in Nebbi District. Championed by Roseline Nyakwo, who noticed that more and more women and girls approached her for training and that many who had passed through her training had been successful.
GWIDO runs a 4-month apprenticeship programme during which women and girls are trained in tailoring, knitting, and designing of garments. The organisation targets to enroll more women every year and has expanded the curriculum to include life skills and basic entrepreneurship training.
Initially, the organisation started as a merry-go-round where members would contribute funds in a rotation to a person. This grew to a more formalised savings scheme where the group would contribute funds on a weekly basis and share out at the end of the savings cycle, with members acquiring loans during the savings cycle.
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Project
Improved self-reliance of women and out of school girls project builds the institutional capacity of Genogen Women in Development Organisation (GWIDO) to serve and promote self-confidence and self-reliance among women and girls in the community.
Capacity strengthening is done through training 5 staff and 60 participants exclusively women and out-of-school girls in the community on life skills, financial literacy and basic entrepreneurship. Skills development for self-reliance is achieved through vocational skills training in the areas of tailoring, knitting and designing.
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Improved self-reliance of women and out of school girls project builds the institutional capacity of Genogen Women in Development Organisation (GWIDO) to serve and promote self-confidence and self-reliance among women and girls in the community.
Capacity strengthening is done through training 5 staff and 60 participants exclusively women and out-of-school girls in the community on life skills, financial literacy and basic entrepreneurship. Skills development for self-reliance is achieved through vocational skills training in the areas of tailoring, knitting and designing.
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Village Girl Earns “Big” from Covid-19 Pandemic
Mercy while making Face Mask Abedirwoth Mercy, an 18 year old school drop-out, makes face masks for sale to the community in Parombo Town Council, Nebbi District in Northern Uganda. The Government of Uganda instituted tough measures to fight against the Covid-19 pandemic in Uganda amongst which people must wear face masks in public places. In June 2020, Genogen Women in Development Organisation (GWIDO), a community based organisation (CBO) in the town, trained five girls on making of re-useable face masks to take advantage of the demand created by the Covid-19 pandemic. Mercy and the other rightsholders were among the 60 girls that benefited from vocational skills training by GWIDO with funding from the Voice Empowerment Grant. To-date, the girls have sold 320 face masks each at Uganda Shillings 1,000 fetching a total of UGX 320,000 (about US Dollars 90).
Mercy was very enthusiastic about the face masks making activity which greatly supplemented the products on her tailoring business that led to a boost in income immediately after the training. “ When I was invited for the training by GWIDO during the partial lockdown I could not believe that something good could come out of the Covid-19 pandemic but I am glad that I am now making money out of the situation. The training enabled me to make over 60,000 thousand shillings from selling face masks in just three weeks.” Mercy narrated.
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