Women Empowerment.

Shamida has taken on women empowerment and we have been given the task of educating, training, providing start up funds and/or finding employment for single mothers. Shamida also provides clothes for the women and their babies/children together with transport to and from the training. This empowerment allows the women to provide for their children. Without this program many of these women would otherwise abandon their babies/children. While abandonment is a criminal offence in Ethiopia, we cannot imagine (especially from a mothers perspective) the grief and despair of being at the point when you felt there was no other option but to abandon your babies/children and therefore try to prevent this through our women empowerment program.