Girls Empowerment strives to create a world where empowered girls and young women are free to exercise their rights and live peacefully in a just, humane and equitable society.
Our mission is to promote and advocate for social and emotional well being of vulnerable and marginalized adolescent girls, teen mothers and young women and to influence positive change in the areas of gender, human rights, HIV/AIDS and education. We believe that encouraging the leadership of women and the development of their status benefits the entire community. We strengthen the efforts of girls’ clubs as they teach girls and young women to become socially, economically and politically empowered and self-reliant enabling them to participate fully in their communities and political life.
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Girls Empowerment works to promote gender equality, sustainable development, women’s rights and HIV/AIDS prevention among girls (14-27 years) through assertive trainings, awareness campaigns, theatre, sports festival, talent shows and dance for life activities.
Our aim is to...
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Girls Empowerment works to promote gender equality, sustainable development, women’s rights and HIV/AIDS prevention among girls (14-27 years) through assertive trainings, awareness campaigns, theatre, sports festival, talent shows and dance for life activities.
Our aim is to strengthen the role and contribution of girl to socio-economic development, equality and human rights and also to provide a channel through which girls can reach one another and share real life experiences and information so as to explore ways and means to overcome their problems. We believe women can help themselves to overcome their own challenges.
Area of priority
Girls and young women are increasingly at risk of HIV infection and various form of abuse including sexual exploitation and abuse. Gender inequality fuels the HIV/AIDS epidemic and therefore GENET-Malawi works in the following main program areas; skill development (leadership) HIV/AIDS, education, rights, gender and violence against women. Attention is also given to self reliant and self employment to break the cycle of vulnerability.
Our work is multi-sectoral and uses integrated approach recognizing the interrelatedness of our topic issues.
OUR APPROACH
We believe that empowering girls morally, psychologically and economically will help to improve the quality of their living. We also believe that given all the necessary skills and opportunities, girls can do wonders. We strongly believe that women are agents of change around the world and that building capacity in them will yield greater impact in a nation.
OUR WORK
Skill building training/leadership development where vulnerable girls and young women are put in clubs and trained on Peer education, HIV/AIDS, Gender, women’s right, life skills and business management and self reliant.
Formation of girls’ network and collective groups to advocate for children rights and protection. The network is going to provide adolescent girls with a dialogue podium in which girls will learn from each other.
Public education/organizing/awareness raising using TFD, songs, poems, traditional dances and information materials.
Sports festivals: include sporting, information/experience sharing, question and answer, and a lecture). This will enable girls and young women to discuss and explore on ideas on how they can solve their own problems.
Linking/networking/coalition building.
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Girls Empowerment Network is conceived as an avenue to build the capacity of educationally disadvantaged girls resident in low social economic areas of Malawi.
The organization work to foster self-esteem in girls by engaging them to explore and define their personal values and to build skills that power them with confidence and courage to make wise choices that will sustain their livelihoods and improve their quality of life.
The organization also focus on raising economic status and lift educationally disadvantaged girls out of dire poverty and break the cycle of vulnerability.
The organization promotes and raise awareness about child rights, abuse, gender and the extent to which AIDS epidemic has impacted girls and young women.
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