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
In the month of April, the finishing works for Ntaseka clinic maternity ward were completed. On April, 8, 2022, under ……………………………………..
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.
“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 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…
“I never tasted love in my marriage. We worked together to get money. I used to spent the day working in our restaurant, when I came home tired, he threw at me traumatic words. He used to tell me that he will kill me one day. Sometimes he showed me the photos of his girlfriend….
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…