CWPFG INTERNATIONAL, INC. MISSION STATEMENT
CWPFG International’s mission is to empower girls and women through transformative education, entrepreneurship and reproductive health. Its community-based approach helps women and girls overcome or avoid poverty, illiteracy, HIV, and gender-based oppression. Its goal is to reach women and girls in remote areas of Kenya, enabling them to survive and flourish in their own communities.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF CWPFG INTERNATIONAL, INC.:
- Empower girls through financial support of their education
- Empower women through entrepreneurship support
- Support holistic reproductive health through sanitary supplies, contraceptives, and sexual education.
PROGRAMS SUPPORTING THESE OBJECTIVES:
- The Deborah Ullian Kashdan Scholarship Program
- Education is power for women through reduction of poverty.
- Unequal access to education is the silent architect of gender disparity.
- The F. W. Reproductive Health and Sexual Education Program
- Every woman deserves the right to quality reproductive healthcare, regardless of where they live or their socioeconomic status. Access to quality reproductive health is not optional; it is among the most neglected of human rights.
- Investing in adolescent reproductive health education is a fundamental way to prevent teen pregnancies with its negative impact on mothers and their children.
- The Natalie Andre Women Entrepreneurship Program
- Empowering women is the foundation of achieving gender equality and economic vitality.
- To break poverty cycles in society, women must be empowered financially.
- Future programs contemplated: water access through cisterns and wells
Vivian Awuor, Odongo Kenas, Counselor Dominic Okongo and Mentor Sophy Collins
Programs in entrepreneurship, family planning, education, and other subjects vital to local girls’ and women’s well-being are well attended. These monthly programs are presented on a rotating basis, in different villages. Here are some girls attending a mentorship program. And women members of CWPFG at a monthly meeting reviewing savings and loans for small businesses.
Here are four students’ own descriptions of their lives and hopes: Our Stories.
Here are stories from three local businesswomen who were given an opportunity to provide for their families: Esther, Alice and Naomi in an open-air market and another woman, Joyline.
Basic to family life, however, is access to birth control. Here are some stories:
Anne and Diana who have been members of CWPFT since 2012. Then there’s 21 year old Millicent and the girls’ mentorship program on how to reduce teenage pregnancy.
And most encouraging of all, the opportunity to receive an education, as Chanty and Volenta know first hand.
We can be reached at [email protected]
and +254 799 729795 or +254 725 358129
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CWPFG is made of women who work in clusters of 10, enlightening the community on girls’ rights, campaigning against illiteracy, teenage pregnancy, and empowerment of women through entrepreneurship.
It started with a membership of 5 women; currently the membership stands at over 50 women. It has a board of management with three executive members: Chair lady, Treasurer and Secretary.
PROBLEM STATEMENT
Nyatike sub county is a semi-arid area and this limits agricultural activities making fishing to be the only economic activity.
With depletion of fish in the lake this has made fish to be like gold; hence women give in to sex for the exchange of fish. In some cases this leads to some of the women to be killed due to wrong relationships.
High levels of poverty is a great contributor to high cases of early pregnancy amongst the teenagers–hence leading to high dropout rates.
OVERALL OBJECTIVES
The goal of this group is to involve women and young girls identified in the villages to come up together and stand for their rights through fighting poverty, high illiteracy amongst girls, together with early teenage pregnancy.
GROUP PURPOSES
1: Outreach programs and mentorship program to help reduce teenage pregnancy
2: Women empowerment through village saving and loaning schemes
3: Parents awareness of, and sensitivity to, the importance of girls’ education.
MILESTONE OF THE GROUP
1: Active women clusters for pooling resources to reduce poverty.
2: Active Mentorship programs to control and reduce teenage pregnancy in the villages.
MAJOR CHALLENGES
1: Lack of funds to carry on our activities.
2: Inadequate communication devices such as computers and printers to make our work easier.
HERE ARE SOME OF OUR PROGRAMS
Presentation Plans for Empower Me Mentorship Program
Description of Reproductive Health and Safe Sex Education Program