This project, based in Iriona, Honduras, is designed to promote the empowerment of women through financial education and incentives program. In order to build women’s confidence, capacity, and ability to participate in the development of their communities, this project provides the ability of women to create their own enterprises. This is the first of five year project.
Project Description
To build the capacity of Garifuna women to lead their families and communities to increased well-being, including better health and higher incomes, through leadership and asset management training. Participant savings will be matched one to one (to a maximum of $100) for an investment selected by each participant.
This five year project will improve the quality of life and standard of living of families in marginalized communities in Central America through the promotion of women’s education, leadership, health and economic development.
This project provides weekly leadership classes to women in marginalized communities; it utilizes weekly classes to train women in financial management (including budgeting and savings) and family health matters; and, it also promotes asset accumulation among needy women through one to one savings matches (incentives).
Students will be given the opportunity to accumulate savings in a formal financial institution during their participation in classes as part of financial training; these savings will be matched, one to one, up to a maximum of $100 per student, upon their successful graduation from the Program, and applied toward a project or item benefiting their family or community.
- Lives Affected: 110
- Target Start Date: January 1, 2008
- Funding Requirement: $37,969.00
- Raised: $104.50
- Current Need: $37,864.50
Project Budget: $37,970.00
- Organization: CAUSE Canada
- Description: CAUSE Canada’s key strategies: * implements responsive, integrated community development in geographical regions where there is an under-representation of international assistance programs.... Read more…
