Women Empowerment Program

The Women Empowerment Program was launched in 2010; it is a career-oriented program that provides basic education and training for underprivileged women to help them start a career and gain economic independence. It is a free program dedicated to women between 18 and 50, and it aims to improve the role of the working woman in the Lebanese community and to give her the opportunity to acquire a job in various fields such as the art of cooking, sewing and embroidery, hairdressing, cosmetics and computers.

The period to prepare the participants in the “Women’s Empowerment Program” ranges between 3 to 4 months during which they will be trained on basic techniques to attain an appropriate profession that they would like to work in.

This program hopes to help these women support their families and transform them from needy ones into productive ones.

This program is mostly financed by The U.S. State Department under the enterprise of Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI).

It provides courses in the following:

• Cooking at the American University of Culture and Education (AUCE) in the Kafa’at area.
• Hairdressing, make up and beauty care in cooperation with the Makhzoumi Foundation.
• Computer courses under the supervision of Formatech Company.

The first group of thirty ladies graduated and a ceremony was held at Ajialouna on the 16th of May 2011.

For more information please contact Ajialouna 01-304472 extensions 1607.