Natasha Tasha Robia, Power Up! program graduate (Submitted)
The Saint John Women’s Empowerment Network (SJWEN) will virtually launch Power Up! Saint John, a free 10-week leadership empowerment and training program to help women move forward in their lives next week.
“Power Up! is our signature program here at the Women’s Empowerment Network,” said Executive Director Sharon Amirault. “It focuses on everything from working in a group, connecting with others, connecting with your community, getting to know your community and building skills for the next steps in your life.”
Amirault explained one of the best ways to combat and move people out of poverty is to help them find meaningful and gainful employment. Power Up! does this through helping participants figure out they want to do next with their lives, along with teaching the insight, skills and knowledge to accomplish their goals.
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Girls Empowerment Network (Genet), a local non-governmental organisation (NGO), has groomed girls in leadership skills through a three-day Girls Summer Camp at St Peters Secondary School in Dowa to enable them to defend their rights.
Genet training in Dowa
The camp which has attracted about 100 girls is being heard under Nkhanza Toto Project.
Genet Nkhanza Toto Project Officer, Tassie Chirwa said her organisation prioritises empowering girls with leadership skills.
She said the project aims at empowering young girls to be confident and be able to speak and demand for their rights.
Chirwa said there is need for the girls to seek their rights by challenging the patriarch tradition where a girl child is being looked as a second fiddle.
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ENGAGE Project Phases Out Nyirenda - the Project has delivered expected goals - pic by Hastings Jimani
The four year child marriages’ elimination project dubbed Enabling Girls to Advance Gender Equity (ENGAGE) implemented in Thyolo and Phalombe districts has come to an end with implementers satisfied with results on the ground.
The project was implemented by Girls Empowerment Network (GENET), Youth-Net and Counseling (YONECO), International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW) and Rise Up.
The project’s Consultant Stanley Nyirenda says previously each of the three T/As of Changata and Nchiramwera in Thyolo and T/A Chiwalo of Phalombe where the project was implemented were registering over 200 child marriages annually but now some T/As are registering no child marriage case the whole year.