The role of women
The women of the Aïr want to take their destiny into their own hands. We help them do this by offering targeted vocational training and literacy sessions. Indeed, without support they cannot develop income-generating activities and acquire financial autonomy.
We are committed to promoting gender equality. We want women to be free to make their own choices and participate in the economic development of their region, without gender being an impediment.
“ The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. “
Alice Walker, writer and feminist activist
Training
fruit and vegetable processing and drying, batik, sewing... in 16 women's cooperatives.
Equipped with solar ovens, grain mills, carts, as well as sewing machines. The training courses are designed to meet women's desires and local needs, and are one of the ways in which they can become emancipated and empowered. Women can then either open small businesses or look for work.
Literacy
We offer women access to functional literacy courses.
These training courses delivered in the Tamachek language enable them to develop businesses and thus acquire autonomy.
Opening of small shops
We help women open small shops selling everyday consumer goods that are unavailable in the bush, enabling them to have an income-generating activity.
Clothing, hygiene, food, and medical products, etc. are thus locally available.
Endowment
Providing women with working capital, either individually or as part of a group, allowing them to purchase food, fabrics, and so on.
Thanks to this, they can resell these products within the village and make a profit.
Every day, they must travel several kilometers to retrieve supplies from distant shops and buy basic food items (milk, oil, pasta, etc.). This takes up a lot of their time, thus preventing them from developing other activities that could potentially diversify their sources of income.
Our numerous actions aim to offer women more independence.
5,000 women are impacted by our projects.
They have the power to act positively.
