GOALS

WHY WE STARTED

Helping Empower Women to Gain Marketable Skills leading to Financial Independence and Income

Learning sewing and design within a versatile textile sector, provides Ethiopian women with vital financial independence and community support.

• Consistent Earnings: Sewing offers a quick way to earn steady money through clothing alterations, uniforms, and producing own design clothing. Helping women turn a craft and a newly acquired skill into a stable and flexible long term business.
• Entrepreneurship: Women use their skills to work from home independently or open small shops, sell handmade garments, or join local business cooperatives.
• Alternative Livelihoods: Training programs help vulnerable women—including abuse survivors, former domestic laborers, or those forced into dangerous work like collecting firewood—transition to safe indoor employment.
• Rebuilding After Conflict: In regions affected by war forcing women to flee, sewing provides a portable, resilient skill that lets women restart their lives and provide for their families.

• Globally, 77.6 million girls are currently not enrolled in school (UNESCO)

• Of 163 million illiterate youth today, more than half are female (UNFPA)

• Globally 250 million adolescent girls live in conditions of poverty (GIRL EFFECT)

• When 10 percent more girls go to school, a country’s GDP increases (COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS)

• An extra year of secondary school education for a girl enables the country’s GDP to increase by 15-25 percent (WORLD BANK)

• Educated women are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children (UNGEI)

• A girl with basic education is 3 times less likely to contract (HIV MAKE IT RIGHT)

• Children with educated mothers are more likely to live past age 5 (MAKE IT RIGHT)

• Almost half of the worlds out of school girls live in Sub-Saharan Africa (WORLD BANK)

• Ethiopia has some of the highest rates of global child marriage (USAID)