Friends Women’s Association   APRIL 2023 Report

My name is Therese. I helped a married couple who was always fighting. The wife was beaten by her husband five times. She was every time wounded. The case became beyond my capacities that I referred them to the local administration for counselling. Now the husband no longer beats his wife. They are living peacefully.

COVID-19 AND NTASEKA CLINIC In the month March 2021, Friends Women’s Association has continued to apply Covid-19 restrictions at Ntaseka Clinic for both the staff and the beneficiaries’ protection. MARCH 8, 2021 On March 12, 2021, as women-led organization which works for women, the FWA joined the world to celebrate the international women’s day.

Although we still need medical equipment, we have started to have new born babies at Ntaseka clinic.

I got married at 16; I was in the refugee camp in Kenya. My husband began dating a girl who was my maid. One day at night……………………….

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…

Our medical doctors consulted with 150 cases, including 69 adults (18 men and 51 women), 19 children (10 boys and 9 girls), 47 HIV positive people and 15 pregnant women for ultrasound. The nurse received 188 patients including 141 adults and 47 children