Empowering Women

“Women’s empowerment has five components: women’s sense of self-worth; their right to have and to determine choices; their right to have access to opportunities and resources; their right to have power to control their own lives, both within and outside the home; and their ability to influence the direction of social change to create a more just social and economic order, nationally and internationally. According to that, education, training, awareness raising, building self-confidence, expansion of choices, increased access to and control over resources, and actions to transform the structures and institutions that reinforce and perpetuate gender discrimination and inequality are important tools for empowering women and girls to claim their rights.”

FRIENDS facilitate women to be economically active through the livelihood development activities. Economic power of women is the foundation to be empower. Formation of village level women groups and divisional level federations create opportunities for women to be leaders and decision makers in their own communities and create opportunities to go beyond.