We bring them together to share their stories, get advice, get empowered financially and morally, become less vulnerable and stay happy even as widows.
PROSPECTIVES
- Increase their roving funds to 1,000,000frs cfa.
- Create a cooperative/ a provision store for the marketing of their produce and products.
- Create a social fund to give minimal assistance to very desperate widows, who do not have accommodation.
- Provide health insurance for the widows and their orphans
- Empowering some of the young widows to be able to provide palliative care to the clients of Pillar one.
- Provide basic capacity building workshops on monthly bases in hygiene, finance and homecare management.
PILLAR TWO, Young Widows
Target Group is widows below 50 years, no financial and emotional support for them and or their children, no means of sustenance, no health insurances.
RSF seeks to bring them together to share their stories, get advice, get empowered, intellectually, financially and morally. Become less vulnerable and stay happy even as widows.
CHALLENGES & NEEDS
- Lack of Funds to provide them with capital for petit trading.
- Lack of health insurance
- Lack of basic health needs.
- Lack of accommodation for their children
- Most of them still having young children.
- The traditions are repugnant, forcing the widow to remain glued to late husband’s family.
- Lack of farmland to cultivate basic food stuff.
- Most are not educated at all.
- Social unrests
WHAT WE HAVE DONE
WHAT WE HAVE DONE What has been done so far is highly summarized below but the impact is very much felt in the community. The need is huge. Our means so far are greatly limited and has not covered 10% of what has to be done. We have a functional office equipped with 2 desktops,
PILLAR FOUR: Environmental Conservation and Climate Change
PILLAR FOUR: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE RSF recognizes the pressing need for environmental conservation and addressing the challenges of climate change, especially in less developed countries. The impact of these issues can be felt by all members of the community, including vulnerable groups like the elderly, widows, and orphans. Through education, advocacy, and community
PILLAR THREE: Orphans and vulnerable children. (OVC)
PILLAR THREE: Orphans and vulnerable children Orphans and vulnerable children. (OVC) Target Group: 18 and below. RSF seeks to educate them, empower them to become independent, by providing scholarships and training them in different trades for those who are interested. Give them entrepreneurial skills. PROSPECTIVES Selection of OVCs for the RSF scholarship based on Merits