Many women across Ethiopia and across Africa are working hard to support their families, however many times, they just can’t make enough money to feed their children. As a result they are forced into dangerous, violent, and damaging activities, which could lead to women becoming pregnant again, further deepening their need for a better income because there’s another mouth to feed. Unfortunately many men in these situations are either casual partners or have all together abandoned their families. This is the cycle of too many families in Ethiopia. KVI’s Family Empowerment program aims to turn this cycle around and give families a chance for a different life.
Kingdom Vision International’s Family Empowerment program is a program that teaches, trains, and educates families, most commonly women and children, ways to make a living and do business. By giving families an education and teaching them the basic principles of saving and how to generate income through income generating activities (IGA). This gives them the opportunity to become self sufficient, and to support their family in the process, effectively giving each woman and each child a new outlook on life, and a way to learn to save money. Family Empowerment is an exciting, challenging and rewarding economic training program that teaches women and children how to survive through operating a business and becoming economically independent.
There are countless families who can be economically independent and self employed if they are empowered. KVI’s goal for 2010 is to empower up to 500 women in each of the KVI project areas. We plan to provide training and seed money to them so that they may generate their own income and become self employers after vocational training to be provided or participate in income generating activities. The seed money for a woman can be 2000 birr. The women can be in certain groups and work together as per their convenience. This is because empowering women in Ethiopia means empowering the whole nation. Currently, KVI is empowering over 1000 women.
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