Battered mothers will learn job skills for economic independence.

Economic Development > Income-Generation Skills for Battered Mothers

Income-Generation Skills for Battered Mothers

Summary

Unable to provide a safe home for themselves and their children due to domestic abuse, these 25 women who were all teenage mothers learn necessary income-generation skills in order to be independent. read updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $2,840 was raised for this project.

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

25 battered mothers and their children, who exhibit delinquent behaviors, find solidarity among other families that share their experience. They come from the poorest area within Brazil: an overcrowded city that lacks basic sanitation and government services. They meet with professional social workers who counsel them through the process of waiting for a place at the shelter and also help in conflict resolution.

Activities

The women get training in the handicraft of doll-making, a part of their cultural heritage. Creating dolls with their children brings families closer together, provides income and teaches marketing skills.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $2,840

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $2,840. The original project funding goal was $2,840.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Solidarity Studio will create a sustainable income- generation program for 25 women. It will empower them to leave abusive households and to provide for their families, and will offer psychological counseling for them and their children.

Project Message

The project leaders of this group are very proactive, capable and innovative women who are forever coming up with new ways to sustain their community and always with great joy and pride.
- Christine Clauser, Director of Development- Dreams Can Be Foundation

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Ana Cristina Diôgo,
Managing Coordinator
Rua Padre Cícero 1121
Salesiano
Juazeiro do Norte, CE 63010-020
Brazil
011(55 88)3512–4474
Email:

Project Sponsor

Dreams Can Be Foundation/Dreams Brasil

Organization

Dreams Can Be Foundation
Dreams Can Be Foundation
945 Menoher Blvd.
Johnstown, PA 15905
United States
(814) 255-4379
http://www.dreamscanbe.org/

Learn more about Dreams Can Be Foundation and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Brazil and can also be found under Economic Development.

For more information about Brazil, read the Human Development Report on Brazil or the Wikipedia entry for Brazil.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on April 23, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 31, 2005.

Latest Update from the Field

Progress Report & Future Plans

By Emma - Dreams Can Be Intern, April 18, 2007 10:49 AM

Juriti Project Update Income Generating Skills for Battered Women

Increasing our Capacity

At present our original group of 25 women are working in income-generating activity in the space given by the Casa Brazil in the center of the city.

We are currently forming two more groups of 25 women each: one on Horto hill and another in a small house next to our property (donated by the local government). Some of the women are already launching their own businesses, using space in their own homes.

These two new groups have different characteristics: one works with female heads-of-households and the other with young female workers from Horto hill, where we are establishing a school of Economic Solidarity, as well as a Solidarity Studio.

Transforming Lives

Along with the 75 women who are directly benefiting from the project, their 375 family members are indirect beneficiaries. For the original 25 women, the project has significantly improved their relationships with their children. The family environment is being structured with a basis in love, solidarity and generosity. Some of these mothers have gained an interest in computers and the internet, and are expressing the desire to improve their products through a course of handcraft design.

Utilizing Previous Funding

The $3400 from Global Giving will be used to install a store in Horto for one of our new groups, to pay the rent of the Shopping Post in front of the Father Cicero Statue, as well as the installation of the Solidarity Studio store. Annually the Father Cicero statue receives nearly 2 million visitors from all over the Northeast of Brazil, which will increase the sales volume of the products created by the three womens’ groups.

New Goals and Challenges

The great challenge of our project is the construction of a large workhouse and the purchase of equipment to improve production and packaging. We have land available to us donated by the municipal government of Juazeiro do Norte.

Cost of the workhouse: US $57,875

Cost of equipment: US $19,276.