Friends Women’s Association JUNE 2024 Report

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…

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

COVID-19 AND NTASEKA CLINIC On December 17, 2020, according to the Ministry of Public Health and the Fight against HIV/AIDS, since March 31, 2020 a total of 76962 people have been tested for COVID-19, including 760 confirmed cases, 687 discharged,71 active cases and two deaths. So, since July 2020, different organizations have supported Ntaseka clinic…

“I grew up unhappy because I am an orphan. When I got married I hoped to find peace but it was the worst because I live in violence. I live with an irresponsible husband.  He doesn’t take care of anything at home. He only comes home to eat. I have to work hard to have…

Although Ntaseka maternity ward still needs some medical equipment; both the delivery and the hospitalization services arecurrently functional…….

“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…