Women
Women are the backbone of our society
KIHO's approach to women is:
to increase the political involvement of women based on peace and social justice
One way to enable and empower women is to make sure that they create their own sources of income. In nine tree nurseries we established in Same District, women cultivate and sell different kinds of tree seedlings in order to have an additional income. Additionally this reduces their economic dependencies on men and hence increases their self-esteem. Here you can learn more about this project.
Other income-generating opportunities for women groups include small-scale food processing, like the production of jam and juice as well as the solar-drying of fruits and vegetables.
To ease the accessibility to basic needs like clean water, is another way to decrease the workload of women. As it belongs to their tasks to walk long distances in order to collect water from rivers or ponds, the construction of water pipelines decreases their daily workload to a great extend. The access to clean water is one of our main fields of operation. Click here to read more.
KIHO makes sure that on any project committee is an equal representation of gender. This allows the inclusion of women into leadership positions. Such a policy will slowly by slowly help to achieve a new reality where also women can fully make use of their potentials.
- to stop all kinds of violence against women in the community
- to create an environment that will enable women to implement their activities in the community depending on their needs to achieve their goals
- to facilitate women to identify and make use of their potentials for a better future
- to fight against a patriarchal system that is exploitative to the women
- to build the capacity of women and empower them for fighting against poverty
to increase the political involvement of women based on peace and social justice
One way to enable and empower women is to make sure that they create their own sources of income. In nine tree nurseries we established in Same District, women cultivate and sell different kinds of tree seedlings in order to have an additional income. Additionally this reduces their economic dependencies on men and hence increases their self-esteem. Here you can learn more about this project.
Other income-generating opportunities for women groups include small-scale food processing, like the production of jam and juice as well as the solar-drying of fruits and vegetables.
To ease the accessibility to basic needs like clean water, is another way to decrease the workload of women. As it belongs to their tasks to walk long distances in order to collect water from rivers or ponds, the construction of water pipelines decreases their daily workload to a great extend. The access to clean water is one of our main fields of operation. Click here to read more.
KIHO makes sure that on any project committee is an equal representation of gender. This allows the inclusion of women into leadership positions. Such a policy will slowly by slowly help to achieve a new reality where also women can fully make use of their potentials.
