Together with you, we are supporting a new project as part of our Rounding Up feature: Your donation will go to Women for Women International Deutschland gGmbH enabling the targeted empowerment of women through educational programs, the provision of urgently needed resources and connections to local networks in Iraq and Nigeria. You can find out why we chose this project and how your donation will have a concrete impact here.
With our Rounding Up feature, you can round up to the full euro every time you pay with the Tomorrow card and support projects for more climate justice and social justice with cents. What is just a small amount of money for each individual becomes a large sum that can really make a difference. We have already been able to finance ten projects together.
Targeted empowerment of women affected by wars, crises and gender-specific discrimination
Women and children are particularly affected by wars and crises, as they are at high risk of experiencing gender-based violence. Military conflicts also exacerbate unequal power relations, which in patriarchal societies leads to traditional role models being further cemented and women having fewer opportunities for an independent, secure life. At the same time, women play a key role in healthy, strong communities. This means that empowering women individually is as important as it is valuable, but it also has lasting positive effects on their families and the society in which they live.
The Rounding Up project with Women for Women International
The “Stronger Women, Stronger Nations” program of Women for Women International is aimed specifically at women in countries affected by war and conflict. Together with you, we support women in Iraq and Nigeria. The program offers the women access to education, financial resources and local networks. This then gives them the opportunity to make important contacts and use their new knowledge and skills to become self-employed. In addition, they learn to better understand their rights and are taught important health knowledge. All of this enables them to contribute to social change in the community themselves. The decades of experience of Women for Women International in working with and for women have shown that this targeted empowerment of women also has a domino effect on the communities in which the women live.
The trainings are led by local staff from the same communities, who are trained and hired by Woman for Woman International. This is important because they know the women and their challenges and needs and can adapt the curriculum accordingly in order to provide women with the most targeted support possible. The organization also adapts the selection criteria for participation in the programme to local conditions. This enables them to support marginalized women exactly where inequality is greatest.
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This can be achieved together with the Tomorrow Community:
A total of around 200 women in Iraq and Nigeria would be able to attend the program's continuing education class for a year
After completing the program, participants have on average three times more savings and more than double their weekly income
The women's new knowledge also benefits their families and the communities in which they live.
So activate Rounding Up in the Impact tab of your Tomorrow app to make a big difference with your small cents.