Women are also less represented in the field of education and in the labour market. Te focus on women is crucial to SAE be- cause an empowered alliance of women can equate to change and sustainable develop- ment. Empowering women will give them access to education and other skills in order to be financially independent and improve their lives, families, societies and future gen- erations. SAE’s Women Achievers Program enrolls women in programs that help in many areas:
♦ Raising awareness of HIV/AIDS,
♦ Combatting sexual, physical and emo- tional abuse
♦ Alleviating poverty
♦ Helping women to know their rights in their homes, society and workplace
♦ Teaching them how to grow crops
♦ Maintaining self-sustaining projects within their talent capacity
♦ Promoting financial planning and handicrafts.
We believe empowering women will edu- cate them to know and take their rightful places in their communities.
Lupane Women’s Center
In July 2011, Southern Africa Embrace Foundation partnered with Lupane Wom- en’s Centre (LWC) to help create sustain- ability for the women that are currently members at the centre. Te centre generates income from local membership fees, run- ning a poultry project, a small restaurant, booking rooms and a conference facility. Te garden at the centre also complements
income through the sale of nursery trees that are grown by the women. Women at the centre are also involved in raising goats and chickens, selling eggs, soap-making, candle-making, conservation farming, nu- trition gardens, bee-keeping and facilitat- ing financial stability amongst the members through the creation of a monthly savings club where women contribute funds to in- vest for themselves.
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