OWA focuses on people’s empowerment as she believes lifting people out of poverty is lifting a community, and the country at large.
Thematic areas such as girls’ education, promoting women’s voices, earning an income, to increase their income and consumption and become self-reliant are OWA’s focus to lift people out of poverty and help them make informed decisions about their lives.
Women’s economic empowerment:
This is one of our sub-thematic areas. We believe that women’s economic empowerment improves their income-generating capacity, which in turn, improves the income and consumption of their household.
Women’s economic empowerment also helps women support their family and most importantly, children’s education and everyone around her.
OWA provides women’s empowerment ranging from window’s empowerment, earning an income, promoting their voices and businesses. This is done by sponsoring providing funds for Women’s Small-scale enterprises (SMEs), establishing women’s cooperatives, providing seedings for women farmers, providing vocational training for youths and adults.
Girls’ Education
Girls education has a ripple effect in the short term, investing in girls’ education creates confident girls. In the long run, it promotes healthier and wealthier communities and families.
Investing in girls’ education breaks inter-generational poverty as the girls have access to the formal economy and good jobs, which in turn, increases their income, social status and wellbeing. Girls’ education empowers them to be financially independent, self-reliant, and politically empowered.
OWA believes quality of education should be a fundamental human right for children, which should be provided either publicly or privately, depending on the country’s context.
We work across 7 countries to provide education ranging from primary, secondary, tertiary and vocational education for girls, and donation of education materials to school children.
Ending Gender-based violence :
Gender-based violence is an abuse of human right as women’s rights are human rights.
OWA adopts proactive and reactive approches such as prevention and prompt response, to ensure the promotion of gender equality, equity and poverty eradication.
OWA responds using three approaches to solve gender-based violence- socially, psychologically and economically.
Socially, OWA responds by a creating a support group for domestic violence victims. It is a platform where victims with similar experiences share their thoughts and past experiences to support one another. Social activities are also organised within the group members to improve their emotional wellbeing.
OWA provides psychological interventions for Gender-based violence victims ranging from trauma counselling, to psychosocial support. OWA also works with community groups and members to prevent domestic violence through education and sensitisation.
Economically, empirical evidence shows that some common causes of domestic violence is women’s financial dependance on men. OWA supports victims by empowering them economically to ensure their financial independence and.
