Empowering Women and Youth
This is a new program structured around a family model, with the support theme being to nurture and encourage women and children to acquire vocational and life skills needed to lead productive lives. This sensitization process aims to encourage leaders and their communities to take action in support of affected women and children, and to monitor those most vulnerable, ensuring that they are under the supervision of adults, in school, accessing needed services and realizing other basic rights. Of particular importance is alerting leaders to the risk of sexual abuse and exploitative labour faced by these children and the need to create a culture in which abuse is unacceptable and violations are dealt with effectively. This heightened awareness provides much needed attention to vulnerable children and stimulates locally driven action in response to identified needs.
Program activities are imbedded in its minimum package of services and rights. The minimum package of services and rights are the services and rights that are provided to a child in order to count him or her among those served by a program or intervention. The following constitute the minimum package of services and rights to be provided by the program: care, support and protect orphans and vulnerable children with support in education, food/nutrition, psychosocial support, health, child protection (protection from exploitation, abuse and neglect), clothes and household economic strengthening. Strengthening women’s land and inheritance rights; improving community health initiatives (HIV/AIDS, malaria, etc) and Women economic empowerment.
Approach to Self-Reliance
PFPF strives to empower women and children to make health, education and financial changes today that will have lasting impact and give them real options for their futures. This special program gives youths and women access to: opportunity and discipline to save money, education to build life skills, and social support that is critically important if they are to stand up for their rights and make their own choices.These are acheived through:
- Advocacy before the authorities.
- Public awareness.
- Collaboration with services such as education departments, social affairs services, women and the family.
- Care taking and prevention of HIV/AIDS.
- Assistance to schooling OVC (school furniture or materials, payment of school fees, alimentation)
- Organization of activities related to information – education – communication and /communication and change of behavior.
- Putting in place an effective professional training center for the training of young orphans who are jobless. Home visits.
Women & youths programs, children in need
Program update
Mobilize sixty (60) women groups and organized 2 training workshops (Tombel and Mamfe) on Gender sensitive participatory approaches in project cycle management.
Trained and introduced household vegetable gardening, with many families now fully employed and raising vegetables (cabbages, tomatoes and Irish potato in fifteen (15) women and eight (8) youth groups.
Successfully facilitated 5 sensitization workshops on HIV/AIDS in Bangem Sub Division, with close to 6,000 people on modes of transmission & safer sexual practices including gender roles, sexuality, relationships
Within the frame work of women information coordination network (WICOF) PFPF facilitated a workshop for women who ran for the joint municipal and parliamentary elections 2007 in Kupe-Muanenguba Division
Carried out a rapid base line study of human rights issues with focus on women land and inheritance rights, and child trafficking and labor.
Facilitated VCT in two Sub Divisions Tombel and Bangem and 210 people benefited
Facilitated the celebration of the world AIDS day for 2008 in the Tombel health district service.
Formed two (2) associations of people living with HIV/AIDS;
20 peoples living with HIV/AIDS have been supported with income generating activities
Effected nutritional support to 31 PLWHA and orphans
20 community based HIV/AIDS education programs launched at market places and schools
