Mwanamke Imara Project

 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 

The Mwanamke Imara Project is dedicated to promote and build resilience in young mothers in Arusha who’s because of different challenges and difficulties of such as Female Genital Mutilation, early marriages, harmful tradition, poverty and handling menstruation at school leads to high rates of truancy and dropout and become mothers. Young mothers who found themselves mothers at their young age (babies with babies) they face a lot of stress and psychological problems because of stigma from the family and community, they also lack support from the child fathers making it harder to raise their child and themselves. The project aims to address the issues of gender-based violence to girls which result them into being dependent and needy women because they are unskilled with no descent work by encouraging them together with all crisis and problem they have encountered, they have to remain positive about themselves. Young mothers and girls who undergone crisis like arrangement of marriage and FGM and managed to run away, PWDT rescue them by welcoming them in the safe house, when the process of solving the issue legally is organized. At safe house girls are helped with psychology and counselling support before resuming to their normal routine activity aftermath of crisis. In the center also we will provide girls and young mother with opportunities to rebuild their competency, character, connection, copy and contribution to the other girls in school and community. PWDT also can help girls and young mothers to build resilience and mitigate those risk caused by poverty, harmful tradition, and family trauma by assisting find themselves and promote high expectation, self confidence and self improvement . the first intervention we out to conduct need assessment, capacity assessment and help them as per their capability and as per resources allows. On helping girls with market oriented skills, we will collaborate with youth ministry, local government, SIDO, KOICA and VETA to impart young girls with different skills like tailoring, vegetable garden, chicken farms and catering and bakery. Through these interventions, we seek to build independent and confidence women in future by providing skills which can help young mothers be valuable member of the community regardless the challenges (GBV) they got just because they were women. This is for six months plan where young mothers will be graduating and start their independent life under PWDT and KOICA supervision. The program expected to reach and change the life of 100 young mothers in Arusha per year.

OUR VISION 

To have resiliance and independent young girls by imparting them skills and motivating them heal and engage on social and economic programs.

OUR GOAL 

Building resilience and Inspiring young girls to excel the limits of poverty and traditional boundaries enforced on them and discover goals that lead them to new self-discovery and economic possibilities.

OUR OBJECTIVES:

To empower girls in schools and outside schools to be resilient and overcome challenges. The confident will help girls acquire real skills that will help them navigate the impact of Gender Based Violence confidently and gain respect and power economically, psychologically to be able to take control over their lives again and pursue their dreams. 

To enhance resilience to young girls by imparting them vocational skills: PWDT, LGA, YOUTH MINISTRY, gender and women ministry and KOICA will offer vocational training programs and equip youth with Know How knowledge such as animal husbandry, tailoring, food processing skills, solar installation, event planning and catering, and to equip them with all marketable skills for self-employment. This will not only help girls economically but will help them become role model to the community and be a lesson that parentism community will help them build resilience and connect with them in time of difficulty rather that abandoning them. 

To foster resilience and economic independence: PWDT, KOICA will provide skills on income-generating activities to help young mothers secure a sustainable livelihood for themselves and their dependents. In the fostering resilience PWDT will connect youth with government on youth revolving financial loans and connect them with banks like CRDB Imbeju product which is purposely for women entrepreneurs to access capital to strengthen their businesses

Methods: 

To achieve the objectives, after need assessment PWDT will implement the following activities: 

 Provide education and human rights campaign where girls are helped to develop strong values and protect themselves confidently in the world full of violence. We assist them rise their voice as youth on the girls' clinics in schools. 

Tailoring class: PWDT will provide designing training and tailoring where they can make income by making dress and contribution to the girls in school sanitary pads. 

Decoration and event planning, young mothers will gain skills in event planning, including decor arrangement, furniture setup and coordination, enabling them to contribute to the local event management industry and make money.

Catering and bakery. We will offer training in catering and bakery skills, providing professional guidance to help young mothers establish their own small businesses in village and urban areas. 

Provide entrepreneurship skills on income-generating activities like opening restaurants, doing vegetable gardening, establish chickens farm, doing catering on different social events and make money