Toilets For Adolescent Girls in the School

Global Projects GG 2459570

The project helps in providing hygiene toilet facilities for adolescent girls of residential Junior college along with training on good hygiene practices. The college is a government aided college with the teaching and other staff getting paid from the Government. The girls from low income groups are provided education at concessional fees. These girls stay at the hostel facility within the college campus. The toilet block of the hostel has 30 toilets, 24 bathrooms and 10 wash stations. This block is in dire unusable conditions and needs complete renovation.

The girls are suffering because of this and the resulting in trauma. There is an immediate need for a hygienic environment among the students for good healthy and livable surroundings, decrease the absenteeism in the students by providing better sanitation facilities.

Hearts of Europe: Empowering Women Entrepreneurship

Current women’s economic empowerment interventions are not enough to overcome all obstacles facing female entrepreneurs. The emerging evidence from psychology and experimental economics on agency, mindset, and leadership show that for successful interventions to be transformative, they need to move beyond basic access to financial and human capital and tackle central psychological, social, and skills constraints on women entrepreneurs.

Women in social entrepreneurship often disrupt many of these patterns of gender inequality. The social entrepreneurship sector has proven itself uniquely capable of empowering women leaders in its field, and of changing the lives and welfare of all women.

Women social entrepreneurs have, time and time again, made a deep impact in their work through a form of impact called “scaling deep” – overhauling unfair and unjust systems, sparking collaborative social movements, and reshaping dominant expectations, norms, and stigmas.

RC Cukarica conducted assessment among female entrepreneurs from October 10th to October 25th, 2022. Assessment was conducted with help from Rotary clubs from different parts of Serbia to receive more useful info from the field and to tackle the smallest press of the women entrepreneurship challenges in Serbia. Focus groups were conducted with more than 80 females, ages between 35 and 55 years old, some of them are already in business and some have business plans to start their own production in different fields. Most of their business is based on preparation of traditional, healthy products and different tinctures. 

They received 128 applications and team consisted of RC Cukarica and Foundation Ana and Vlade Divac made a final list out of sixteen women entrepreneurs that will participate in project. During the project all project participants will be connected via e -mail, social media and Viber groups. After the project ends our partner, Foundation Ana and Vlade Divac will be available to all project participants for on-line consultations and provide support from their area of expertise. After the training is conducted, a Viber group will be made with all entrepreneurs- project participants and our partner will have on –line consultations with each of them to provide specific support that they require. In September we are going to have a study visit from our international partner from Savannah. During their visit we agreed with them to organize Zoom meetings with Savannah Labor commerce –their female entrepreneurs, to exchange experience and know-how with our project participants.