Capacity building for marginalized women's project

We wish to extend our appreciation to the donors of this project to make this happen ! Although we are still to raise more funds for this project, we have started several sessions of training for the leaders of 3 grassroots and marginalized women's mutual help groups. The training focus on building capacities on organizational management, membership development and administrative skills. This is to enhance the mutual help women's groups to manage themselves in a more sustainable way, so that they can serve more women in the community in need of their support. The 3 groups involved are a local sex workers' mutual help group, a new immigrant women's group and a grassroots low income women's group.

The participants of the training find the training very useful to their organization's work and helped them to strategise on the work they are doing. They hope, there could be more support in their application of their learning from the training, to further apply to their daily work in the organization. This requires more resources for providing mentorship support, and we hope funds can be available to further this aspect of work. Please continue to support this project and do help us to spread the words for more support from your network ! Your kindness and giving is much appreciated !

The capacity building project for marginalized women is paving the way to enhance grassroots women's leadership. Members in the marginalized groups come from the grassroots. Due to their care-giver role, taking care of the family and children, their community participation is very much confined and lacks the opportunity to develop their potentials and capacities. Many of them see themselves as inadequate and have a low self esteem. They hardly realize their strengths and contribution to society. Through this capacity building project, the participating women are able to learn new skills and apply them in their own organization. At the same time, they will be empowered to learn to appreciate themselves and their strengths. It is only through recognizing one's strength that one can be confident in serving the others. This is what we aim to do : helping others to help themselves.