Income generation program
This program aims at reducing poverty of people in Eastern province of Rwanda. Many youth in Eastern province live in poverty condition or they search money in very critical ways like prostitution. We carried out a project in this program:
SPEC: Stop Prostitution in Eastern City: this project designed after seeing that young girls live home in rural areas and go in city to work as sexual workers in hotels. As an impact of this project, there is one cooperative of former prostitutes engaged in income-generating micro projects such as weaving baskets, sewing, etc.
Evidently, prostitution reduced in the area as it is testified by local people and authorities Safety in the area has been improved due to the factor that conflicts which were raising due to prostitution are no longer the case because many women have already left prostitution and women of the area have seen that there are many alternative ways of living without prostitution. We think that the stated percentage has already been met and even overtaken. On the economic point of view, the only way we had to raise the economic capacity was the baskets selling. Here we registered a big obstacle since our main market was in America and now due to global economic recession, there has been a gap in the baskets 'market. Women are selling only baskets locally and due to local economy, the price for baskets is very low. We hope that since measures have been taken globally to rebuild world economy, the baskets' market will re-raise and we will get again our products sold to good prices. we have started farming activities which we think will be a new way to reach our goals.
SPEC: Stop Prostitution in Eastern City: this project designed after seeing that young girls live home in rural areas and go in city to work as sexual workers in hotels. As an impact of this project, there is one cooperative of former prostitutes engaged in income-generating micro projects such as weaving baskets, sewing, etc.
Evidently, prostitution reduced in the area as it is testified by local people and authorities Safety in the area has been improved due to the factor that conflicts which were raising due to prostitution are no longer the case because many women have already left prostitution and women of the area have seen that there are many alternative ways of living without prostitution. We think that the stated percentage has already been met and even overtaken. On the economic point of view, the only way we had to raise the economic capacity was the baskets selling. Here we registered a big obstacle since our main market was in America and now due to global economic recession, there has been a gap in the baskets 'market. Women are selling only baskets locally and due to local economy, the price for baskets is very low. We hope that since measures have been taken globally to rebuild world economy, the baskets' market will re-raise and we will get again our products sold to good prices. we have started farming activities which we think will be a new way to reach our goals.