ACTION FOR INTEGRATED APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE
Empowering vulnerable communities for a sustainable development
Women EmpowermentAfiadi provides the capacity building program where we train women in communities how to promote the concept of self-help among target communities in order to contribute towards their own development and social well-being. This is a process through which women are mobilized to identify, understand and overcome the structural and underlying causes of under development.Skill training where they make art and craft products.Giving education to girl child.Introduction of entrepreneurship skills to women.Women knowing their rights and counseling to those with problems.Introduction of income generating projects into their groups of credit & savings.Introduction to knowledge concerning maternal health using the sensitizing and advocacy program.1.8 Achievements;Sensitizing and advocacy have been extended to communities. This has been reached at by giving out Herbal Medicine to the people infected and affected with HIV/ Aids. Elderly people with ulcers, back pains, pressure, malaria and other people with various diseases. Community sensitization on conservative or backward practices around water sources e.g. urinating or defecating around them as well as water source management committees.
Securing Livelihood
After AFIADI has discovered that rural communities are the very difficult places to live in, it decided to approach it by looking at what was the main cause as poverty and ignorance. So, it looked at it in different ways;
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Introducing the construction of walls as a way of conserving water to change the standard of living.
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It has been giving out chicken projects to different women groups so that they improve on the standards of living.
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Introduction of horticulture project where we have been giving seedlings to community members so that they change their income status.
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Introduction of community work where people have started to handle community affairs as a whole and to feel that the community belongs to them. (sense of belonging).