Women's Empowerment Brochure 2023

Our

Vision: To bring strength and dignity to women and girls around the world.

Sustainable Transformation

This is why Convoy of Hope’s Women’s Empowerment, Children’s Feeding, and Agriculture initiatives are key to our strategy. Our global programs are designed to work together to address poverty from multiple fronts. When we partner with women to build on the capacity and resources they already possess, it positions them to make more strategic, independent life choices that benefit the entire family. When the needs of a family are addressed, the resilience of an entire community grows.

Engaging with children through Children’s Feeding

Job training and empowerment for women

Training individuals to feed their families and communities

Regular, nutritious meals

Emotional and spiritual care

Clean drinking water

Nutrition and hygiene education

Poverty is complex and requires a holistic and integrated programming approach.

The Motivation

WHY WOMEN?

3 Billion+

More than 3 billion people are unable to afford a healthy diet around the world. The majority are women and minors. Many are making less than $2.15 per day.

12%-17%

If women had the same access to resources as men, the number of hungry people in the world could be reduced by 12% to 17% due to productivity gains.

60-80%

Women produce between 60% and 80% of the food in lowand middle-income countries.

40%

In the least-developed countries, 40% of girls are married before 18. Roughly 12% are married before age 15.

90%

Women invest up to 90% of their earnings back into their households and manage it toward nutrition, food, health care, school, and income-generating activities. This helps break the cycle of generational poverty.

25%

A girl’s income increases up to 25% for every year she stays in primary school. Continued education delays marriage and is a deterrent to women becoming victims of violence.

The Method

Equip mothers so they can start their own businesses, send their children to school, and provide for their families.

Educate girls so they can make good choices for their futures, such as staying in school, delaying marriage, and pursuing job opportunities.

Empower women and girls through education so they can know their value and find sustainable solutions that will change the course of their lives and impact generations to come.

Empowerment

Why We Are

Our

Strategies

Convoy of Hope partners with local churches and communities around the world to empower the vulnerable. One way we accomplish this goal is by addressing the health, diet, income, education, and societal status of mothers — areas that have a direct impact on the overall well-being of their children and are often the root causes of undernourishment.

We want to see women and girls reach their God-given potential, recognize their value, and know God’s love for them.

ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

Provides women with seed capital and the tools to start their own businesses.

FAMILY HEALTH EMPOWERMENT

Exists to support and resource families.

GIRLS’ EMPOWERMENT

Educates girls in the areas of self-esteem, positive body image, and more.

Clarita is in our Women’s Empowerment program in the Philippines.

ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

Economic Empowerment groups equip women with financial education, vocational training, cooperative saving groups, and startup capital. After receiving training and the distribution of capital for small business startups, women participate in incomegenerating activities as they launch their own small business. Every activity is monitored by Convoy of Hope team members to ensure support and success. At the onset of the program, all women engage in self-esteem-building activities along with education in basic literacy and numeracy, family health and nutrition, family planning, and the prevention of communicable diseases (HIV, in particular).

Personal health includes hygiene, nutrition, self-esteem, and life skills.

Training in financial skills incorporates market analysis, budgeting, saving, and both profit and loss.

Vocational training encompasses hands-on small business education, seed capital for startup businesses, and follow-up to ensure success.

Thanks in large part to the skills she learned through Convoy of Hope’s training, Betelhem started a laundry business in 2018. Now she’s generating enough income to care for her six children and disabled sister, invest in her company, save, and celebrate more than ever before.

A sign reading “Happy Birthday!” is on display in Betelhem’s home. The decoration was used to celebrate her daughter’s 13th birthday, but its significance stretches far beyond a single day.

“It was the first time we’ve been able to celebrate a birthday [as a family],” she says proudly.

Thanks to your support, Convoy of Hope’s Economic Empowerment projects are helping mothers around the world provide for themselves and their families — affording them increased opportunities to celebrate life’s precious milestones with the dignity everyone deserves.

SAMPLE BUSINESSES

Organic Vegetable Farming

Cosmetology

Restaurants

Raising Poultry & Selling Eggs

Shopkeeping

Animal Husbandry

Jewelry Making

Beekeeping & Honey

Processing

How You Can Help

$84

$1,000 (monthly for a year) supports one woman in our Women’s Empowerment initiative.

$300

$84

$300 (one-time gift) supports one woman in our Women’s Empowerment initiative.

(one-time gift) provides seed capital for a woman to start a business.

$25 (monthly for a year) provides seed capital for a woman to start a business.

FAMILY HEALTH Empowerment

In Family Health Empowerment groups, women attend educational sessions where they are trained in nutrition, health and hygiene, literacy, small-scale community agriculture, craftsmanship, and cooking. Participants who display consistent attendance receive a month’s worth of food to help supplement their diet at home. This provides incentive for women to come and learn, and it

helps Convoy address the nutritional deficiencies of children not in school. Caretakers, especially those who are pregnant, are provided with vitamins for both themselves and their children. All of the participants’ children under 5 years old are monitored through their Body Mass Index to strive toward a reduction in malnutrition and protect healthy development.

How You Can Help

$50

(one-time gift) provides a nutritional supplement for children of our Mothers Clubs participants.

$100

(one-time gift) provides training materials for 10 women in Family Health Empowerment groups for one year.

What Is Early Intervention?

Convoy wants to give mothers and caregivers the opportunity to learn about the early development stages of their young children. As part of Convoy of Hope’s Family Health Empowerment strategy, Early Intervention groups provide practical teaching on how important it is for the caretaker to interact with their children. The intentional interactions that occur through Early Intervention groups help children and their caretakers with the following.

• Eyesight Development

• Fine Motor Skills

• Language Skills

• Color Perception

• Strengthening of the Caregiver-Child Bond

Mothers Clubs started in 2011 and are the primary avenue of Family Health Empowerment. They provide education to women with limited socioeconomic means in the following areas.

Health & Nutrition

Sanitation & Hygiene

Child Care

Gardening

Financial Skills

Menstrual & Breast Health

GIRLS’ Empowerment

Girls’ Empowerment brings educational programs to schools and communities. Sessions include contextually appropriate topics on self-esteem, gender-based violence, and harmful beliefs and practices.

Oneyda NICARAGUA Girls’ Empowerment

After an act of rebellion led to a horrific accident that nearly cost Oneyda her life, she realized it was time for a change. She began participating in Convoy of Hope’s local Girls’ Empowerment group in Nicaragua, chose a new path in life — one full of hope and opportunity — and became a person she is now very proud of.

Oneyda now advocates for other girls in her community to develop good character, achieve their full potential, and set good examples for others.

“That is why I take advantage of sharing my experience with other girls … that they study, that they set goals in life, help people who need it, and that they practice love for their neighbor.”

“Before, I was a very difficult girl. In the Girls’ Empowerment group, I learned a lot,” she says.

Marjorie

HAITI Girls’ Empowerment

communities.

They learn about:

General health

Nutrition

Hygiene

Emotional health

Harmful practices

Gender-based violence

The impact:

Delayed marriage

Increased number of years at school

Good decision making

Pursuit of job opportunities

Marjorie lives with her family of five in Haiti. She was once very shy and desperate for basic necessities. Now, she participates in both Convoy of Hope’s Children’s Feeding program and her local Girls’ Empowerment group, simultaneously providing for her physical needs and her overall wellbeing.

The values she learns in her Girls’ Empowerment classes help her overcome hurdles in her life and find ways to break the cycle of poverty when she is finished with school.

“I would like to have a business to buy several goods in other countries to sell in Haiti,” Marjorie says.

“In my hard times, I pray a lot and ask God to help me, and I stay focused on my dreams.”

How You Can Help

(one-time gift) engages one girl in our Girls’ Empowerment groups for one year.

$25 $50

(one-time gift) provides training materials for 10 girls in our Girls’ Empowerment groups for one year.

Girls’ Empowerment reaches at-risk girls aged 10 to 18 who live in vulnerable

99,000+ WOMEN & GIRLS EMPOWERED SINCE 2010

12

YEARS OF EMPOWERING WOMEN & GIRLS

18

COUNTRIES WHERE WE HAVE WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT*

*Sensitive countries are not shown to protect the safety of beneficiaries and staff.

Latin America

El Salvador

Guatemala

Honduras

Nicaragua

Caribbean

Dominican Republic

Haiti

Africa

Burkina Faso

Ethiopia

Kenya

Tanzania

Zimbabwe

Europe & Asia

Bulgaria

Lebanon

Moldova

Nepal

Spain

Philippines

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Learn how you can make a difference and empower women and girls around the world.

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ONE DAY TO EMPOWER WOMEN

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