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This project was completed on Feb 15, 2020
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Individual Donor Letter
Companion of Women and Children Empowerment (COWOCE)
Companion of Women and Children Empowerment (COWOCE)
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Individual Donor Letter
Project details
What we need
- A concise, well-articulated letter (not exceeding two pages) to request funds from individual donors
Additional details
We have learned that many girls during menstruation do not go to school due to the lack of private rooms in schools.
This has caused many girls not to do well in their studies, especially in the National Examinations, which makes them lack access to higher education.
We ask the Volunteer to write a document for a campaign to raise funds for the construction of 10 rooms in existing 10 Primary schools as well as to encourage the use of a pad.
What we have in place
- We currently have We have data on the problem of lack private rooms in school, which should make it easy for you to get started. We also have Toilet pictures of non-friendly infrastructure for girls., and the ability to provide any other information you need.
How this will help
This project will save us $2,140 , allowing us to support school needs for Vulnerable children
This project will help our Organization achieve its goals because is the course goal says to Promote quality education to children.
Also, this project will contribute to the attainment of our Vision is "To see a Community where women, Children, and elders who are empowered, environment are protected, healthy with the stable economy".
Project plan
Posted by
Joseph N.
CEO
Our mission
"To see a Community where women, Children and elders who are empowered, environment are protected, healthy with stable economy".
What we do
COWOCE is an abbreviation of Companion of Women and Children Empowerment. Companion of Women and Children Empowerment was established on 22th of October, 2007 as a CBO was called Ebeneza Group working to cover Shinyanga Region and later registered as an NGO on 21th August, 2018 by the Ministry of Community Development, Gender and Children and was issued with the Reg. 00NGO/00009869 under the NGOs Act of 2002, section 12 (2) Tanzania Laws No 24. COWOCE is a Non-partisan, Non-Religious and Non-profit Organization geared at promoting human rights and Community Development. COWOCE was established with the aim of preventing and controlling HIV/AIDS and its effects in the community. The Idea of establishing COWOCE started from few Members of the Organization after seeing many People of their Community Members affected by HIV/AIDS and increasing number of widows, widowers and Orphans and Vulnerable children who were seeking for assistance in the Community.
In 2017, COWOCE came to realize that violation of Human Rights in the Community was a Problem. Since then, COWOCE started working on four core programs which are; HIV/AIDS control and prevention, Child and Youth Protection, Community awareness on the women, elderly and Children and Prevention of Gender Based Violence, Child marriages and Early pregnancies. These core works contribute to the attainment of our Mission which is "To empower Women, Children and the community with the right tools that help them to fight diseases, ignorance, poverty and all forms of discrimination through education, empowerment and participation "and the Vision is "To see a Community where women, Children and elders who are empowered, environment are protected, healthy with stable economy".
COWOCE is managed by a Board of Governance, elected in General Assembly. The Board of Directors is composed by seven (7) Members. The Board gives direction to programs and ensures accountability and integrity to the Organization.
ORGANIZATION GOAL
Enhanced community especially women, youth, children and the elders with capacity to access legal aid services, reduce incidence of HIV/AIDS and its impacts, income generation and abilities to prevent human rights violation in Shinyanga and Simiyu Regions by 2020.
ORGANIZATION STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
Objective 1. Enhanced Rights and access to justice among women, children, and youth in Shinyanga and Simiyu regions and advocated for in six districts by the end of 2020
Objective 2. Fight against HIV/AIDs, STDs, Malaria and other diseases which may be endemic by the end of 2020
Objective 3. Ensure economic and social empowerment to women and youth in the community through training, Empowerment, advocacy and use of economic forums by 2020.
Objective 4. Enhance prevention of behaviors, cultural issues and attitudes that perpetuate human rights violation especially to adolescent girls, children, women and youth by 2020, for example practices of early pregnancies, forced marriages, child domestic workers (child labor) and gender based violence.
Objective 5. Promote quality education to children and youth in Shinyanga and Simiyu Region
Testimonials
(No testimonial has been submitted by Joseph)
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