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Women’s Empowerment

Women’s Empowerment seeks to advance the role of women, strengthening and empowering them on the individual and collective level to foster human values, sustain peace, and develop families, communities and societies around the world.

“The role of women in the development of society is of utmost importance. In fact, it is the only thing that determines whether a society is strong and harmonious, or otherwise. Women are the backbone of society.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, IAHV Founder

IAHV’s Women’s Empowerment programs promote women as key enablers of peace and stability through leadership, education, and community partnerships. Using a holistic approach to transforming lives, the program establishes clarity of mind, calm focus, and centeredness as the foundation of leadership. Women and men who have participated are committed to their personal and community responsibility to promote and protect women and enable them as catalysts for change addressing key issues such as education, health, employment, political representation, protection of human and legal rights and service delivery. The Women’s Empowerment program has innovative educational initiatives including:

Al Azhar Program, Iraq

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Al Azhar Program mobilizes and supports Iraqi national and community leaders in launching initiatives that promote and protect Iraqi women. The program aims to strengthen Iraqi families and civil society by advancing Iraqi women’s leadership and eliminating gender-based violence on a local and national level. This program draws support from all levels of the community. National Taskforce Members underwent a transformational leadership training, team building, and visioning program which resulted in a National Action Plan to counter gender-based violence, emphasize women’s role throughout the policy development process, provide legal assistance to women victims of violence, find peaceful solutions to conflict, and elevate women into leadership positions. To help women survivors of violence, Life Skills Training and vocational training are taught to women community members. Through community partnerships and the mixed-gendered National Taskforce, the program demonstrates the unique role women leaders can have at both a national and local level to advance peace and the status of women in Iraq.

Advancing Career Women Project, Iraq

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International Women’s Conference

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Light a Home

Light a Home is a rural electrification initiative which provides subsidized alternative energy in places where grids are not available.

Light a Home aims to bring clean and affordable lighting to 300 million people in India living in 78 million rural households who do not have access to electricity. The initiative seeks to provide high-quality and cost effective solar lanterns, home lighting systems and solar cookers, disseminated through solar centers across India. The units are operated and managed by a local entrepreneur trained under the initiative.

 

The Light a Home campaign is making a concerted effort towards addressing these critical issues to enable energy access for all by providing clean lighting to billions that are at the bottom of the pyramid, and has adopted a localized, bottom-up approach.

 

Each solar lantern and home lighting system in its life of 10 years replaces about 500-600 litres of kerosene, mitigating about 1.5 tons of CO2.

 

Service Management & Training Rural Solar Engineers

As a part of providing service, maintenance and installation facilities for solar products we will be creating rural solar hubs in each village/districts where installation happens. Youth from the respective villages will be identified and provided with training in solar lantern/home light system assembling, installation and repair. The objective of this program will be to provide adequate service facilities for the systems being distributed in the respective villages and to enable rural youth to earn livelihood in their village by taking initiatives that will create better infrastructural, economic and educational facilities in rural India.

Your Donations at Work

$55 = One solar lantern
$500 = One solar battery charging station that provides light to 10 homes
$6000 = One Micro Solar Grid (uninterrupted power to 50 homes in a village)

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