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This Is What Justice Looks Like

Working Women In Zimbabwe

By: Coreen Z.

BuildingComeUnities was created to serve as a global empowering

movement for women who are living in poverty and therefore

lack opportunities to provide for themselves and their families.

BuildingComeUnities enables women to pursue their quest for self-reliance

by facilitating access to funds, business opportunities, and technologies to

help women transform their communities.

Working Women in Zimbabwe (WWZ) expands the possibilities for women

in the developing world to lead their lives self-sufficiently and empowered

to serve as agent of change. WWZ enables women to directly contribute to

the realization of the United Nations Millennium Developments Goals in

communities worldwide.

Trough international collaboration, trans-border practices and community

outreach, WWZ uses the power of global partnerships to empower women

and youth living in poverty by giving them access to technologies and

teaching them the skills necessary to help them prosper economically in the

future. Through initiatives such as “Sew What” and “Chicken Farming”,

women are given the opportunity to run their own businesses.

Unemployment affects one in three women in the developing world,

predominantly impacting the lives of women living in rural areas.

Generations of individuals have spent their entire lives living in poverty,

for this reason they have never seen themselves as having the potential of

transforming their communities.

“Poverty has a woman’s face.” Tahira Abdullah

Women have to deal with a multidimensional, all-inclusive poverty system;

not only the lack of income, but also the lack of education, health, and

opportunities to earn adequate income when they are given work. These

vulnerabilities prevent them from advancing their innate capabilities, as

they are forced to live at the boulevard of discrimination and violence.

Working Women in Zimbabwe aims to bring dignified work to women

in communities where more than 70 percent of the population has been

unemployed for more than a decade.

“Sew What” the first initiatives of WWZ, will provide resources and

training to women in order to develop thriving sustainable sewing projects

as means to create a revenue for these women.

The mission of WWZ is to empower women to create business ventures in

fields they believe offers them opportunities to generate income. All projects

initiated by WWZ are initiated by women in various communities to help

them create long-term innovative and sustainable projects to generate

revenue for themselves and their families.

During the first phase of the project, WWZ will provide numerous

industrial sewing machines to women in the Nyamutsahuni Ward

in Mutoko, Zimbabwe. “SEW What” will be implemented through a

collaboration with Nyadire Connection, a non-profit organization that

seeks to support and sustain communities in northeastern Zimbabwe. Since

2006, The Nadyare Connection has offered various social services to the

community, including a hospital, an orphanage, schools and many other

services to the local community.

During PHASE ONE of the project, our goal is to provide numerous

industrial sewing machines to a group of women. The initial goal is to raise

$ 5,000 US Dollars by January 1st to fund the “Sew What” initiative and

prepare the foundations for larger commitments in the near future.

We envision underprivileged women in community worldwide given

the opportunity to improve their lives by becoming self-sufficient and

in a position to support their families. We believe that the WWZ has

the potential of creating endless possibilities of positive change for

communities where these women. We can visualize this because for the first

time, we believe our generation has both the power and resources to lift the

lives of millions of people out of poverty. With your help, these initiatives

will soon become a reality!

Through these projects, WWZ works with community organizations and

individuals that focus on issues

enumerated in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals

including to:

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Achieve universal primary education

Promote gender equality and empower women

Reduce child mortality

Improve maternal health

Combat HIV/AIDS and other diseases

Ensure environmental sustainability

Global partnership for development

In the year 2000, 193 world leaders met and set these far-sighted goals to

free a major portion of humanity from the shackles of the most pressing

global issues by the year 2015. Significant strides have been made toward

reaching these goals, but with the world population reaching 7 billion, and

the economic globalcrisis, accomplishing these goals remains a challenge.

Community members will be encouraged to educate themselves on these

goals and asked to participate in service that contributes to these goals in

both a localand global sense.

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