Women Empowerment was founded by Mohammed Abdul Aziz ( @Azizbd) on 7 January 2017. He is also the founder of the first steemit funded charity School @SchoolForSDG4. The school provides free education to 60 underprivileged children since 20 April 2016.

@WomenEmpowerment works with more than 50 slum women in Bangladesh. Gender equality is the persistent challenge of developing countries like Bangladesh. With more than 163 million population, Bangladesh faces gender discrimination, sexual abuse, child marriage, domestic violence and so on. Women are neglected and get no say over men decisions in a family. The gender discrimination, domestic violence, poverty and lack of education don't allow the women to think independently.

14 April 2017: Temporary shop to display products by Women Empowerment

Background of Women Empowerment

A social venture to empower underprivileged women by providing training and job facilities and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 5. To ensure the quality life of these women, Women Empowerment has been working for more than 1 year at Gashitula and Shamimabad Sylhet. The project of women empowerment came in my mind when few of our school children were leaving school and started working as child labourers in 2016. Al-amin was 11 Years old, his mother is the only earner in the family. Al-amin started his first schooling at @SchoolForSDG4 on 20 April 2016. But eventually, her mother realized to send him to work as a full-time worker. He was working as part-time but when he started a full-time job (10-12 hours daily for the monthly salary $25 ), he left school in November 2016. His elder sister left school long ago and now she was 16 years old when Al-amin left school. I realized the proper training for girls and women can help them to work and eventually it will support children. If mothers of the children get jobs, small businesses, micro-loan, skill-based training which will stop children to leave school at an early age due to poverty.

So, I decided to develop the social business which will train the women and create job facilities within the organisation. It also works to promote their work, sell products online and offline. The project will directly involve more than 50 women from slums. The free handicraft training allows them to work at home, deliver it to Women Empowerment and get paid for their hard work.

27 November 2016 : I (Mohammed Abdul Aziz @Azizbd ) was collecting data from different slums.

26 May 2017

Women Empowerment was working since 7 January 2017 without any organisational support to continue the development of the project. Since then I was promoting the work in social media, especially on facebook. I became an active user on steemit in May 2017 and started to promote my personal activities and my involvement with different projects I am working with.

In December 2017, we created the account with help and delegation of @Acidyo and started to promote our activities to raise fund for training and development of the venture. The development of the project will allow Women Empowerment to support around 50 Underprivileged women in slums area. Many women will able to make handicraft work at home. Women Empowerment would like to support them by providing free training continuously, open a small shop get orders from local business and women, promote the products in online and ensure the standard of living for the women.

In 2018, Women Empowerment bought first sewing machine through steemit crowdfunding.

As we have small space at @SchoolForSDG4, Women empowerment needs a separate training centre with some more machine. Right now we have only one sewing machine for 10 trainees. We want to install 10 Machine in a separate centre when we have a new training center and a professional full-time trainer. The existing training session is expected to be finished by September 2018. When they are ready for new shop orders, we will hire some of them. In the meantime, we will keep our free training continue.

Women Empowerment is selling products on steemit too by promoting products. We sold some products in the USA and already have some orders from Canada and the USA on steemit. I trust, by opening a new shop we can make the impact more on steemit and real lives. But opening a new shop will is more expensive when it is important for the women. Our main goal is to raise fund to open a shop with help of Steemit Blocakchain and fundition platform.

The fund will be used in following Purposes.

1. Advance and contract of rent $625 for three 3 years.

2. 6 Months Rent ( $38 x 6 = $ 228)

3. Decoration of the shop $450.

4. Internship benefits of 4 trainees in the shop, trainer and manager salary ($100 x 6 Months= $ 600)

5. Utility Expenses ( $25 x 6 = $150 )

If you have any suggestion or inquiry, please do not hesitate to DM https://steem.chat/direct/azizbd or Discord : azizbd #2850 .

New Shop For Women Empowerment