USAID support to a new WEE training project targeting 600 women

Beirut Center for Development and Human Rights launched a new project to empower women economically which will focus on those living in remote areas. Funded by USAID, the project aims at rehabilitating and training more than 600 women in remote rural areas while motivating them to engage in social and economic life in pair with men, and therefore, to enhance their overall living conditions.
The head of the Center, Ahmad Shams Eddine told Annahar newspaper that the project involves a theoretical a practical component. He added that while the first focuses on the importance of developing women’s participation in the economy since it results in increased family income, the second component will provide participants through training with new vocational skills.
Furthermore, Shams Eddine explained that the one-year project will seek to create new economic opportunities for rural families in remote areas that will assist them in remaining in their villages. He added that this can only be achieved by enhancing the economic participation of women through acquiring new income generating skills that require only small capital input and which will enable them to operate from home.
(Al Nahar, Feb 12, 2015)