Friends Women’s Association JULY 2022 Report

Improving Women’s Reproductive Health (IWRH) FWA community health workers and FWA staff have continued to educate men, women and young people on the importance of family planning. Two discussion groups for the SHGs leaders were done:  on May 20&30, 2021. A total of 45 SHGs leaders were touched. The objective was to invite SHGs members…

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.

Friends Women’s Association JANUARY 2023 Report Altough Ntaseka maternity ward still needs some medical equipment; the hospitalization service is currently functional.

In the month of November 2023 , in the context of the project “Connecting the Global to the Local: Strengthening Women’s Leadership for the Localization of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on “Women, Peace and Security”, seven psychologists and 132 psychologists’ assistants have been receiving gender-based violence survivors for both listening and…

“My name is Claire, this program has been very beneficial to me and family. My husband is alcoholic, every day he comes home drunk. I have suffered many forms of gender-based violence. Before coming to this training I was a woman who stays at home every day, I was ashamed to go among the others…

“I am that woman victim of GBV who wanted and planned to kill my husband. I wasn’t lying because I had already tried it for my first husband; it was even said on the radio: I threw hot water on his body and I fled to the DRC country.  I spent 2 years there. They…