NEWIG was founded on 8th January 2002 as skills development and gender employment non-government, non-profit organization with the goal of improving the conditions of the less privileged in society especially women. It does this by creating the needed platform for them to have access vocations (economic empowerment), good health and a sustainable life style as well as political leverage in society.
NEWIG began to operate on a full time basic in September 2003, after being registered at the Registrar-Generals Department on 9th September, 2003.
Network of women in Growth (NEWIG), Ghana was founded by Mawusi Nudekor Awity on 8th January 2002 in response to contributing her quote to fighting economic, social and political poverty especially among Ghanaian women.
Our mission is pursued through:
- 5 months Entrepreneurial Development Programmers run biannually.
- Building capacity of NEWIG Ladies Club members of enhancing their business delivery and performance.
- Small scale enterprise development.
- Gender mainstreaming advocacy.
- Initiating and disseminating information on issue relevant to the development of women
GOAL
The organization’s main goals are:
- To get women in gainful employment.
- To empower women to attain and play leadership roles in society.
- To empower women through functional literacy and entrepreneurial skill training.
- To make women aware of human and legal right.
Functional areas.
NEWIG implements its programme through the following functional areas:
Entrepreneurial Training And Capacity Building.
Under our entrepreneurial development programme, we organize trainings in enterprise creation and business management for women to recognize and avail themselves of business opportunities as well as sharpening their entrepreneurial and managerial skills for better business management. We also organize outreach programme on vocational skill in various discipline. NEWIG has an Entrepreneurial Development Project that runs 5 months biannual trainings in 17 compulsory disciplines, including textiles, cosmetics, soap processing: bookkeeping and costing, entrepreneurship, interior décor, hat making, beads jewellery, floral arrangement.
Gender Trainings
NEWIG organizes seminars and workshops on Gender Trainings. It also involves trainings in Domestic Violence, Gender and HIV/AIDS. We believe that the Gender Trainings certainly may prompt individuals to change their personal or professional behaviour, by creating awareness on gender issues, focusing on specific gender and development competencies and reinforcing commitment to change for a better society.
Political Trainings
Fora, seminars and workshops on Political Leadership Skills Building especially for women at the grassroots level and Good Governance are areas through NEWIG implements its political empowerment programmes.
CHALLENGES.
The challenges the organization faces in executing our work are:
- Inadequate funds to run programmes though we have good personnel. We are therefore not able to reach out to as many beneficiaries we wish we could.
- Lack of offices equipment such as photocopier machine and printer to make copies of training materials such as Handout, etc.
- Lack of official vehicle to facilitate our rather strenuous programmes.
FUTURE PLANS ARE:
- To support our beneficiaries of our entrepreneurial trainings with tools and materials as well as ready market for their products
- To extend our programmes to the regions we have not yet covered.
- To train more women to set up as well as manage their own businesses efficiently.
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