Promoting And Increasing Women's
participation In Decision-Making Process
  
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General Overview |
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Cambodia traditional was only educated girls and women on related housework and
to be come a good wife-and mother. Nowadays, the girls/women-boy/men have the
same rights to go to school as well as to get general education but this traditional
still work on because some girls-women still the first one to offer their body-mind
for their family when the family meet the poverty, illness, danger and so on.
So the girls and women always the main person who do any things to satisfy the
family memb
ers - I am one daughter among three cousins brothers and sisters shilding
in my family,when I studied at primary school which was the
year that I have to pass to the secondary school, my mother said-dear |
should stop
your study to help me making and selling cake to support your brothers' study.
I was thinking a whole night to find solution but I could not. I onlly could tell
myself that I had no choice and tear were caning.The next day I replayed to my
mother-Yes I will. Sine that day I dropout school with my sorrow but my spirit
still continues
. One woman, who live at Svay Rieng province said. |
KYA- Women Program established sine 1994 because we recognized that women need a specific support if we want to reach equality between women and men.
Moreover, we would like to see women and men share power and respect the laws related to women.
With providing qualified information we would
like to initiate a positive social change in our society. Societies where women
and men are equally respected as human beings, where women are physically and
mentally protected and girls have equal access to educate and make useful of all
their human resources for developing further. |
What we want |
- to empower, encourage and increase women's participation in decision making
- to encourage them to express their own opinions and to form group discussion
- to create communicaton networks related to public and non-formal education
Mothers, daughters, widows, childless women, nuns, handicapped women...they should be respected from the society. We, as young women, want to improve the capabilities and the knowledge of young women, so that we will have a better present time and future. |
Why we have a women project |
- women have their own lifestyle and perspectives
- women are responsible for their social and family life
- women like sitting together and sharing their experiences
- women want to practice solidarity and finish discrimination among themselves and in our society
- women have to share more specific information about the political and legal situation in Cambodia
- women like learning together and also to have fun
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How we work |
- we have good trained female employees
- we inform ourselves about specific women issues
- we have actual material about the law against domestic violence
- we cooperate with other organizations
- we practice equal rights in our own organization
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Where we work |
Our project is implemented 5 provinces: Kampong Cham, Prey Veng, Siem Reap, Svay Rieng, and Takeo. |
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