SSD 18 - GIDEL WOMEN'S PROMOTION
Project Location
This project will be developed in Gidel Parish, Nuba Mountains Diocese El Obeid. The women in Nuba Mountains are facing a lot of challenges like illiteracy, poverty, they are marginalized, voiceless, no rights and are overloaded with responsibilities, they are the main supporters of their families because most of their husbands are soldiers posted away from home, some women are widows or divorced and completely powerless.
The main economic activities of the Nuba people are agriculture and livestock rearing. The women cultivate small gardens using traditional tools, and the little harvest is not enough for them and the family suffer hunger and child malnutrition every year.
Project description
The ‘Gidel Women Centre’ receives women of low or no basic education coming from different parts of Gidel Parish. This year 12 women will finish their three years course in tailoring, embroidering and knitting. At the present Gidel Women Centre has 64 members: 13 level three(3), 17 level two(2) and 34 Level (1).
The Women Centre is providing Basic English and Mathematics, training tailoring, embroidering, knitting skills, catering and agriculture. We believe acquiring these skills will help women to start their own income generating activities to help and support their families. This year the women planted tomatoes, onions, okra, groundnuts, maize, pumpkin and beans, it produced well. The harvest is a good help for feeding the women who are coming from far places.
In 2026, the Center plans to organize two workshops on women's empowerment and gender equality, and training on how to start a small business for 15 women who will receive microcredit support. We were unable to complete some maintenance work and have postponed it until this year. We need to repair the floors of three rooms and the Women's Center's atrium, as well as the fence.
This project is very important because we empower women through education and learning different skills which help them to start their own income generating activities improving their lives, support their families and participate actively in the society
Objectives
- Give the opportunity of 64 women of Gidel to attend Adult Education lessons for one year, empowering them and writing and reading and Calculation.
- Sustain a Women Self~Help groups through microcredit to start small business for 15 women
- Make the women self sufficient with knowledge and tailoring, catering and art-crafts skills so they can start their own small business and contribute for the needs of their families.
- To develop a production department for making school uniforms and designing cloths.
Beneficiaries
Direct: 79 women
Indirect: 350 people (their children and relatives)
Referent sister for the project: Sr. Rosa Escobar
Project's costs