WOMEN & GIRLS
GLOBAL WOMEN & GIRLS FUND
EMPOWERING WOMEN IN LIBERIA
CARE FOR WOMEN IN RED LIGHT AREA (INDIA)
WOMEN FOR AFRICA
GLOBAL WOMEN & GIRLS FUND
There’s an African proverb that goes, “If you educate a boy, you educate an individual. If you educate a girl, you educate a nation.” That’s because educated girls grow into educated women who will then educate their families and work together to create change in their communities. It’s called the multiplier effect.
NCM partners with local churches around the world who are working to support women and their families through self-help groups and small business creation, vocational training, small-scale farming, literacy education, and other programs that help them see themselves as people who are valuable, capable, and equal because they are made in God’s image. As women are equipped to learn and pursue productive work, they then help to lift the well-being of their entire families and eventually their communities.
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EMPOWERING WOMEN IN LIBERIA
“Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one’s full potential as a human being.” With these words, economist Amartya Sen sums up the situation for women and girls in Liberia, where high rates of child marriage, abuse, and gender-based violence exist. In Liberia, only 17 percent of girls receive any secondary-level schooling, and customary laws restrict a woman’s right to inherit property, forcing widowed women and their children to leave their homes. Women and girls are particularly vulnerable to poverty in all its forms, including social, spiritual, and economic.
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HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care in Red Light Area (Pusad, India)
About a kilometer down the road from the Nazarene church in Pusad, India, you will find a red light area where women are prostituted and exploited day in and day out. The HIV/AIDS rate there is high, yet most victims aren’t being treated for their disease and many are dying as a result. A combination of stigma, discrimination, poverty, and lack of education keeps sex workers from accessing health care. While others in the community are turning a blind eye, the Church of the Nazarene is working to care for women in the red light area.
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WOMEN FOR AFRICA
The Women for Africa project looks to empower African women, either widows or caretakers of AIDS orphans to generate an income by creating their own small businesses. These women receive training and the necessary tools to begin projects that will allow them the opportunity to provide a better life for the family they provide for. Micro-Enterprise has become one of the greatest ways in which families trapped in poverty can begin a new life of prosperity and happiness. Now operating in several countries, these programs allow women to take out small loans after undergoing training for accounting and basic business practices. Whether they decide to buy a sewing machine, an ox or seeds for farming, these women are able to turn a small loan into long-term benefit for their family.
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OUR APPROACH
There’s an African proverb that goes, “If you educate a boy, you educate an individual. If you educate a girl, you educate a nation.” That’s because educated girls grow into educated women who will then educate their families and work together to create change in their communities. It’s called the multiplier effect.
NCM partners with local churches around the world who are working to support women and their families through self-help groups and small business creation, vocational training, small-scale farming, literacy education, and other programs that help them see themselves as people who are valuable, capable, and equal because they are made in God’s image. As women are equipped to learn and pursue productive work, they then help to lift the well-being of their entire families and eventually their communities.
In an effort to create new patterns and create positive change in future generations, NCM also partners with local churches to create schools and child development centers that provide opportunities for education, life skills, and spiritual guidance for girls—particularly in areas that do not traditionally value the importance of education for girls.
