My name is Jacqueline, Women’s Centre Staff. We are doing alot of activities with the women of Meheba Refugee Settlement with eight big zones/blocks. We teach women sewing and knitting and educational workshops on Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV), Reproductive Health to know the problems of their reproductive system, and then Childcare and Nutrition to help them know how to feed and care for their children in a refugee situation because people have not enough food/resources to survive.
Therefore, the Women’s Centre is working hard to teach women survival skills so that they earn a living and also have some money so that they can send their children to school. We really thank our donors/people who are donating things to the Women’s Centre which is making our work easier and able to teach more skills to the women of Meheba. At the present we have an outreach with women who are at the departure centre in readiness to repatriate to Angola during repatriation in the coming months of April and May. We are teaching them now so that as they go back home they will at least have something to do and some skills to help them.
Recently some people donated four sewing machines to help the Women’s Centre, so that more women have a chance to learn how to sew with a sewing machine and at the end we will give them a certificate.
We really appreciate our people who are donating, because some women have never been to school. But now they still have a chance to learn a skill from FORGE Women’s Centre which is free of charge. If they were made to pay to learn these skills, it would be very difficult for them because they do not have money to pat for them to learn a skill.
