Capacity Building in Women from Flood Affected Areas of Charsadda and Nowshera

Project Partner(s)
International Development and Relief Foundation, Canada

Duration
14 months

Purpose
Providing a unique approach to the development of women from flood affected districts by integrating economic rehabilitation with health literacy.

Features

• Teaching of vocational skills including beauty care, tailoring and embroidery
• A health education component, which will provide basic health education to the trainees, thus promoting health literacy
• A business support group to devise strategies for marketing of the products
• An display center for displaying the work of the trainees
• A vocational toolkit provision on successful completion of the course

Results

• The project will directly benefit 80 women by providing them with the means of income
• Indirect beneficiaries include 640 family members of these women
• The vocational training center will be handed over to the trainers who may continue proving this service in the locality and further contribute to the success of this intervention