MARCH 2022 NARRATIVE Report

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…

DECEMBER 2021 Report I married a woman but she did not respect me. She frequented the bars to drink beer every day. A woman who drinks and comes home late deserves to be beaten for little correction; I beat her and we quarreled every day. To punish me well she became pregnant with another man…

THE WOMEN’S SOCIO-ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT CENTER The FWA has continued the construction 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 $39,100 including $16,600…

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 have a case of a young girl who has been sent away by one of their neighbors (not her parents) because she was pregnant. What can we do as mediators? Answer: you need to do deep investigations to understand why the neighbour is taking decision to send away the preganant girl. Or if the…

“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…