Give Back to Community Zambia (GBCZ) has developed a collaboration with a group of dynamic women who are committed to creating new projects that focus on increasing the empowerment and welfare of deaf women and young girls in Zambia. This group of eight women has begun to meet regularly to formulate plans that can be put into action in Zambia. The group is composed of six female members from Zambia and two who are living in the U.S.
The group has developed the following objectives for potential projects that they hope to develop for the deaf women and girls:
In collaboration with GBCZ, this women's' organization will look for ways to help lift deaf women's lives, bring together communities of deaf women, and improve their self-sufficiency.
- Euphemiah Sijabala: a Business Administration student at RIT/NTID in the US
- Sharon Mulenga: a teacher at Lusaka Boys School for the Deaf in Zambia
- Thelma Chimani: a Personnel Security Specialist in the Department of Labor in Washington Dc US
- Esther Zulu: a teacher at primary school for the deaf in Zambia
- Tamara Mulongo: a teacher at primary school for the deaf in Zambia
- Comfort Kabwe: a teacher at primary school for the deaf in Zambia
The group has developed the following objectives for potential projects that they hope to develop for the deaf women and girls:
- Increase awareness of reproductive health and gender equality for deaf women and young girls. Part of the education will include birth control methods avoiding unwanted pregnancies, and sex consent guides.
- Promote deaf women's and girls' access to various financing options for their enrollment in school.
- Empower deaf women to access financial education/resources; they can help maintain their finances for themselves or their families.
- Prepare deaf women to enter the workforce by offering vocational training for those drop-outs women. Part of this training includes teaching young deaf girls about digital literacy, personal development, and the high use of social media for their ideas.
- Provide training workshops for them on human rights and domestic violence; how they can escape abuses or seek ways to file complaints safely.
- Identify potential deaf women leaders in Zambia to serve as role models for deaf women and young girls in communities.
In collaboration with GBCZ, this women's' organization will look for ways to help lift deaf women's lives, bring together communities of deaf women, and improve their self-sufficiency.
Student at JM Deaf School
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Student at JM Deaf School
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