March eight marks Worldwide Ladies’s Day, a day which is noticed yearly to commemorate the progress made within the space of gender equality, and to mirror on the required adjustments and challenges required going ahead. This yr’s Worldwide Ladies’s Day theme is Steadiness for Higher: when girls and female-identifying persons are empowered, all of us profit. All this week, the G Adventures weblog will probably be wanting on the methods journey impacts girls — and vice versa. At the moment: 4 new tasks from the Planeterra Basis which are serving to to empower girls by journey.
1. Tribal Textiles (Mfuwe, Zambia)
Tribal Textiles was created to reply to a persistent want for rural employment alternatives in rural Zambia. The group’s workers is solely feminine, and plenty of of Tribal Textiles’ administration is feminine, as nicely. It’s now one of many largest employers within the Mfuwe area, and will probably be visited by all of G Adventures’ 18-to-Thirtysomething excursions travelling by the realm.
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2. Lusumpuko Ladies’s Membership (Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe)
The 20 girls who comprise the Lusumpuko Ladies’s Membership started as a bunch of chicken-rearers who additionally often cater church and local people gatherings. With the help of G Adventures, this group now hosts a cooking class for native travellers, which permits them to proceed to study trades and expertise historically reserved for males — similar to tailoring and animal husbandry — and to help different members of their group.
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three. Princess Stitching Cooperative (Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe)
Like close by Lusumpuko, the Princess Stitching Cooperative includes a bunch of girls who’ve realized a historically “male” talent — tailoring — out of the necessity to make a dwelling wage within the absence of other alternatives. G Adventures travellers who go to Princess are supplied laundry providers at an inexpensive price (the ladies of the co-op additionally present mending providers), which has allowed the ladies to proceed to work in direction of monetary freedom. As well as, G Adventures has supplied enterprise coaching to members of the cooperative, which can give them elevated job safety sooner or later.
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four. AidChild’s Equation Café & Gallery (Kayabwe, Uganda)
There are roughly 130,000 youngsters beneath the age of 14 dwelling with HIV in Uganda, and the necessity for medical help and care is crucial. G Adventures travellers passing by Uganda will go to the AidChild Equation Cafe, which sends funding to the AidChild Management Institute, a corporation dedicated to creating new fashions of management improvement and schooling, fostering an HIV-free technology.
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Study extra about AidChild’s Equation Cafe & Gallery right here.
