Ongoing
Tailoring Skills Training and Machine Support for Women’s Empowerment
Started: Jun 2023
Economic Empowerment
Project Description
This project equips women and adolescent girls living with or affected by HIV/AIDS with practical tailoring skills and provides them with sewing machines to start income-generating activities. By acquiring tailoring expertise, beneficiaries can produce clothes, uniforms, and other garments for both household use and commercial sale. The project promotes economic independence, sustainable livelihoods, and dignity while reducing poverty and reliance on external support.
Objectives
Provide vocational skills training in tailoring to women and adolescent girls.
Equip trained beneficiaries with tailoring machines to establish self-employment.
Enhance economic resilience and independence of HIV-affected households.
Promote entrepreneurship and business management in small-scale garment production.
Strengthen community recognition of women’s contribution to household and local economic development.
Achievements
Trained 41 women and adolescent girls in tailoring.
Distributed sewing machines to trained beneficiaries.
Beneficiaries are generating income by making and selling clothes and uniforms.
Improved household well-being through increased income for school fees, medical care, and food.
Increased confidence, dignity, and leadership among women and adolescent girls.
Project Details
- Location: Bugiri
- Beneficiaries:
- Partners: Local technical/vocational trainers, Community leaders
- Donors: Local technical/vocational trainers, Community leaders
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