We promote gender equality through women empowerment and girls' education.
To do we focus on:
(1) Women's enterprise development, through a series of trainings (mindset change training, income generating activities, saving model, etc), startup capital provision and coaching towards poverty graduation. In these women can choose to develop on-farm or non-farm income generating activities. This approach is cooperative-based.
(2) Reproductive health and rights: We focus on family planning, menstrual hygiene. On family planning we conduct community education and sensitization and trainings. Regarding the menstrual hygiene, we make and distribute washable pads and conduct education campaign to demystify menstruation. We do girls' education sponsorship
Country: Democratic Republic of Congo
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the household situation is precarious. Men often cannot support their families and leave them, so many mothers have to care for the well-being of their families alone. Many of them spend the whole day thinking about survival activities and how they can provide for their children.
This project focuses on these strong women, especially mothers, and aims to empower them so that they can gain more agricultural knowledge in order to provide for their livelihood and that of their children.
The project is characterized by a special connection: 50 particularly vulnerable children are enabled to attend school, while their 50 mothers develop their own capacities and learn to make better use of the opportunities available in their living environment. The women are supported during informal entrepreneurial training, discuss their own projects and set up joint working groups. After completing their training, the mothers receive financial support and support in their new economic independence. The children continue to go to school.
Improving the quality of the treatment of sick children in the Ania hospital, Aru, North East Congo and 16 surrounding health stations through: - New construction of the dilapidated children's ward (the 1st stage has been applied for at SEZ; the 2nd stage is guaranteed and will be applied for at the same time from another project partner or financed by friends) - Further training for doctors and nurses in the hospital as well as in 16 health centers with a focus on the treatment of the 5 most common childhood diseases, the regular use of antibiotics and newborn resuscitation - 3-month supervision for evaluation and further improvement The measures are carried out by qualified Congolese employees in close cooperation with a German couple of medical development workers on site (CFI, Stuttgart, in the Congo since 1/18-12/20).
Taragini primary school has 14 classes with 651 students. Currently the classrooms have thatched roofs so that the children are not exposed to the sun and rain. Stones, logs and boards serve as seating. School books and notebooks, pens, blackboards and much more are usually missing. The conditions for sensible teaching are extremely inadequate. A primary school with 14 classrooms, sanitary facilities, rooms for teachers and school supplies is to be built. The Mission-Development-Peace (MEF) Technical Committee of the Catholic parish of St. Johannes Baptist, Weil im Schönbuch, is supporting the new construction of 2019 classrooms (north component) in a time-limited sub-project from October 2020 to September 4, which is to be the subject of this project funding application .
