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Our Mission
Our mission is to support social and economic empowerment for women and girls living in rural Africa through education training, healthcare, and provision of resources needed for enterprise development. We aim to achieve this through our model of learning by doing and earning
"Education is good at reducing poverty for rural people,
who can use it to get better work or income ..."
--Rural Poverty Report, p. 107
Research shows that educating girls and training women in Vocational skills dramatically improves all social indicators in a developing country. However such education and training becomes an instrumental asset for low-income rural women only when other assets or opportunities are also available. These should include proper maternal health care and opportunity to earn income and not only be limited to psychological and spiritual benefits as these cannot uplift marginalized rural women from Poverty.
It is unfortunate that, poor rural women and girls frequently obtain only intrinsic value from education assets because they lack the necessary physical assets or opportunities to use that education. Commonly women and girls in rural Africa are faced with challenges that deny them basic rights like;
• They may not control land, on which they could make independent farming decisions, or have access to credit, other inputs or tools, which would allow them to apply their knowledge to increase productivity and yields;
• They usually face extra disadvantages and discrimination in labour markets that prefer men with formal education.
• And they are often inhibited by cultural stereotypes and social attitudes from taking on new tasks or responsibilities that are considered in the male domain.
That is why Project Africa aims to improve girls’ access to education, and particularly women’s access to non-formal training and education.
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