The FPSC has celebrated the International Women’s Day, which took place on March 8th 2013 internationally and which was also commemorated in the United Nations. 

 

On March 7, the Project Director of the FPSC, Macarena Cotelo, participated in the Dialogues presented by the AECID which were specially held in celebration of the International women’s day. The dialogues were in context of the women’s rights within the changing Arab World.

 

In addition to this, FPSC would like to pay tribute to women who are the true stars of the actions that support many cooperation projects and for the lives they are living. Considering that one of the objectives pursued by the FPSC is the empowerment of women in poverty or situations of social risk. 

AFRICA

 

The project that is supported by the FPSC takes currently place in a Mother and Child Center in Muketuri, North Shoa, Etiopia. The center provides facilities for 250 children most around 4-5 years old. Within the Center the children are prepared for the primary school and provided with adequate nutrition. Moreover, the mothers are offered a training in agriculture and nutrition. The FPSC contributes to this project by ensuring food security and by building an additional classroom for six year old children. Since the new Ethiopian lay for the pre-school age has risen to an age of six years. Besides, wells will be drilled in the Muketuri area to supply the families of 50 women who will be attending the course that is offered. One well will be shared by five families from a nearby area in order to, among other things, irrigate their gardens that they have learned to tend during the training.

 

As an African proverb once said: “To educate a woman is to educate a village.”

 

The FPSC works in the education sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The special emphasis is put on ensuring access to education for women. For example, by offering support to the girls’ school named Lycee Liziba.

 

Lycee Liziba is a high school that provides a shelter for students of different social, ethnic and religious backgrounds. The school serves as a living space for all students, who are not always having one outside the school. Within the school children learn to respect each other, live and study together. It is a school where no one is excluded due to their religion, race or social status.

 

MIDDLE EAST

 

 

 

Another example is the developing activity of FPSC that is under the Agreement on the management of water resources in Jordan and the Palestinian Territories. This activity is co-funded by AECID and carried out by FPSC in Jordan in cooperation with JOHUD.

 

In order to strengthen the role of women as promoters of sustainable development in rural areas of Jordan and the Palestinian Territories, training courses on food security are given at a household level in rural locations. 

 

Promotion of the right to education among girls of the most vulnerable population of Assiut and Sohag (Upper Egypt). In villages that are located in shores of the Nile River, which are going for kilometers over the south of Cairo, poverty, fear and cultural prejudices prevent thousands of girls from going to school.

 

Few families enroll their daughters in the educational system and even less are kept there when hard times strike. One thing we can be sure about is that in Upper Egypt, which is one of the poorest regions of the Middle East, hard times are sure to come.

 

Since 2006, FPSC is cooperating with AUEED, which is the foundation’s local partner that manages over 50 schools in many villages of the Upper Egypt. The organizations are working together in order to extend the basic education and improve its level. During the six years, about 5000 people have benefitted from it, especially the women.

LATIN AMERICA

 


FPSC is carrying out the project named: “Strengthening capacities of a female generation with low incomes in the rural areas of Jarabacoa, the Dominican Republic, through Professional Training in Hospitality.”

 

With this project, 435 poor rural women are improving their capacity for employment and income generation through access to hospitality courses, self-employment, specialized technical training and human training workshops at the Serranía Technical and Hospitality School in Jarabacoa, an area of growing tourism in the Dominican Republic.

 

 

In the coming months this project funded by the Junta de Castilla y León will start. The project is named: “Empowering poor rural women of the Department of Carazo, Nicaragua, by implementing a program of technical and vocational training oriented on entrepreneurship and leadership”.

 

The main objective is that the students of the Social Center Vega Baja, a training center established in 2010, are able to carry out their professional practices. Alongside to the theoretical study received prior to entering the labor market, some have now experience to ensure performance quality of their training.