THE WOMEN’S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT CENTER The FWA has continued the construction work of the Women’s Socio Economic Empowement Center (WSEEC). The aim of this project is to avail training rooms and a temporary safe shelter for gender-based violence survivors at the FWA headquarters. This project will cost $200,000. We have so far mobilized $32,500 including…
Under the support of the Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC), have continued the construction work of the Women’s Socio Economic Empowement Center (WSEEC). The aim of this project is to avail training rooms and a temporary safe shelter for gender-based violence survivors at the FWA headquarters. This project will cost $200,000
“I married an alcoholic man. He came home at midnight and beat me while I did nothing. One day he beat me when I was pregnant and I had an abortion. This abortion left scars in my heart; I didn’t want to be pregnant anymore.Unfortunately I found myself pregnant again, and my husband married another…
“I am a woman who is a victim of psychological violence and no one knows it. My husband is a quite person but I am suffering. We got married illegally and no one told me that he had 2 other women that he married before me.One day, I was cultivating in the field and two…
Women’s Economic Empowerment Center WEECThe Women’s Economic Empowement Center (WEEC) is a new project that the FWA has started in th emonthe of Jul 2024 under the support of the African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI) of the Friends Peace Teams). The aim is to avail training rooms and a temporary safe shelter for gender-based violence…
“I got married at the age of 16. My husband was………………………..
“I married a man but I suffered trauma from the first childbirth, as we saw in JOHARI’s window. I have a secret that no one else knows; my husband never buys me a fabric that is used to put a baby on the back (in our culture it is very important to buy this fabric…
“My name is Esperance, what traumatizes me more than others is that my husband stole money from the saving group; we were at the end of the year, I was given a sum of 544,000 FBU to keep it, I put it in a safe place but I don’t know how my husband was able…
My name is Smith. When I learned that I was HIV positive, I tried to take the retro drugs correctly. But, after few months, I stopped my medication. Afterwards I started having opportunistic infections all the time and it was after taking again the retro drugs that my health improved. I thank the Ntaseka clinic…
This workshop heals us. I had a plan that my wife will no longer see my money but, after these three days due to the couple’s discussions we decided to change especially me as her husband. We will discuss together what concerns finances. We have 9 children and I told my wife that the education…