Demekech, along with 39 other women, participated in extensive pottery training. Since then, she’s worked hard to improve her handmade products.
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We recently met Mesert, a 22-year-old student with a physical disability, at Mudula Primary School.
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In 2019, I finally saw students with different disabilities attending our school!
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Girls at Saruma School have access to support and period care, and it ‘s creating a huge impact on the number of girls attending school.
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Meaza Tesfaye is a water committee member in charge of her community's water station finances.
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Young people are an important part of raising awareness on the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse as well as gender-based violence (GBV).
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When you invest in our Self Help Groups, you enable women like Amarech to invest in themselves and their families.
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As challenges to preventing sexual harassment and gender based violence have increased during the pandemic, WEEMA is strengthening its efforts on Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH).
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On this week of Thanksgiving, we give thanks and pay tribute to a fearless defender of women’s rights whose ideas will forever inspire the WEEMA team. Bogaletch “Boge” Gebre, an activist and scientist who led the global fight to end female genital mutilation (FGM), died this month at the age of 66. She was born and raised in a small village in the Kembata-Tembaro Zone, where WEEMA does much of its work.
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WEEMA is beginning work on a new effort over the next year to ensure that we ‘walk the talk’ in protecting women’s rights.
This summer, we received funding from InterAction’s project, From Pledge to Action, to develop a detailed policy and staff training to prevent and respond to a core gender equality issue - sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment.
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For the Saruma Primary and Middle School, March brought more activity thanks to WEEMA’s Menstrual Health and Hygiene Management project. As you read in our last blog post about this project, providing girls with reusable pads keeps girls in school and raises menstrual health and hygiene awareness in the whole community.
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Two weeks ago WEEMA International, in partnership with Studio Samuel, distributed 400 reusable sanitary pads at Samura Primary and Middle School and left an additional 200 for future students. This distribution was accompanied by presentations, led by peer mentors, on how to use the pads as well as general information about hygiene and menstrual management.
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