WOMEN
TORCH is a non-profit organization that was established
in 17th August, 2013. Its vision, Mission and Objective are:
Our Vision
We
envision a completely transformed society looking upon women as equal partners
in all aspects of socio-economic life, whereby women prosperity shall no longer
be a unique story of surprise and astonishment.
Our Mission
Our
mission is to empower women to stand on their feet
through capacity building, sensitization, increasing awareness and
establishing of mechanisms to deal with issues like political representation,
healthcare and HIV/AIDS, Combating of gender-Based Violence, promoting human
rights, and access to education and productive resources.
The
objects for which the Organization has been formed are:
·
To work toward eliminating gender-based
violence and promoting human rights for women and
young women at the grassroots through capacity building, advocacy and
communication to the community.
·
To catalyze the formation of grassroots
women’s solidarity groups with the aim of broadening women’s scope to pursue
their rights.
·
To promote primary health care and educate
advise, counsel and guide women on medical and health matters particular on
HIV/AIDS and Malaria by enduring awareness campaign to
women and young women.
·
To ensure that women
and young women have access to appropriate forms of expression to articulate
their needs, interests and concerns through sensitizing the community at the
grassroots on gender equality.
·
To identify and address the critical needs
of women in the economy like access to the agricultural services, access to productive resources, access to market and to formalize their own
enterprise.
·
To promote women’s awareness of the causes
and consequences of climate change in order to sensitize women to the dangers
of climate change and to the mechanisms of adaptation at the grassroots.
·
Educating and training women voters on their
electoral rights to improve their understanding of voting procedures and
highlight on laws that shall help remove barriers over their democratic rights
to voice their concerns as women.
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