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TRANSFORMA
NO WOMAN, CHILD, ADOLESCENT OR IMMIGRANT LEFT BEHIND
Women, children, adolescents and immigrants in extreme/ultra poverty disproportionately bear the brunt of the sufferings that come with social injustice. COVID-19 has highlighted the growing challenges. The best help we can give them is a long-term, wholistic approach and wraparound programs to facilitate their development.
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Poverty and Social Vulnerability
Crime, Violence and No Security
Under Education lowering Access to Opportunities
Human Rights Violations
Housing Shortage and Overcrowding
Lack of Safe and Dignified Job Opportunities
Low Access to Healthcare
Domestic Violence against women and children
TRANSFORMING OUR WORLD BY TAKING CARE OF THE ULTRA POOR
These subgroups have greater challenges. Composed by unskilled unemployed single mothers head of households, women survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking, undocumented immigrants, suffering, along with their children, from: food insecurity, underpaid jobs, irregular income, lack of healthcare, inadequate housing, lack of education, job skills and in digital exclusion. Here are some of the challenges our beneficiaries suffer:
We are taking action, so that NO ONE IS LEFT BEHIND
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Self and skill discovery
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Job and skill training
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Entrepreneurial education for self employment
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Financial training to build and sustain micro businesses
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Teaching of vital values and human rights to build strong families and society
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Promotion of gender equality
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Advocacy to tackle the constraints that limit their progress and make a space for their voices with governmental agencies and society for the issues affecting them and their next generations
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Training in conflict and peace-building skills
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Anti-human trafficking and prevention activities that enable women involved in prostitution and drug addiction to exit these situations and reintegrate into society. This happens through a holistic approach to restoration, skill development and learning communities made out of women from all walks of life and social status.
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Community awareness by promoting inclusion, standing against discrimination and addressing common misconceptions about those who have been involved in the commercial sex trade to earn a living.
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Training of local volunteers and other non profits organizations working in social justice.
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Social responsability/Volunteer hours. Each woman is asked to give 3 hours a month to participate in social responsability. Activities such as: the massage therapy students going to a home for elderly people, the manicure students to prison for women, the sewing students to food bank.
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We support other organizations that work with women in prostitution, drug addiction or leaving prison by giving scholarship to their participants for our courses.
Outcomes & Benefits
In our latest survey we discovered that women who had participated consistently in our programs in the last 3 years had experienced the following:
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Spent more time studying and working, impacting their own children's progress and bettering family dynamics
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Felt more productive, confident and hopeful
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Became providers for their households and went hungry fewer days
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Had less stress, leading to mental and physical health improvement
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Many opened a savings account for the first time, learned how to administrate resource, and had money to invest in micro-businesses for survival
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Improved their relationships with neighbours and became interested in the progress of their community
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Had a greater awareness of their need to invest in education
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Felt more capable to handle emergencies and other challenges
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On average, our women have significantly more assets and savings than they did before joining TRANSFORMA.
Other Efforts
Year round, TRANSFORMA serves thousands of nutritional meals, delivers dozens of food packages. To End hunger, improve nutrition, ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for
all at all ages is the the goal.
Food for the Hungry
TRANSFORMA ensures that both children and adults have the resources they need to stay in school: school supplies, transportation and healthcare scholarships, tutors, mentors, meals and more.
Education for Wholistic Sustainable Development
Investing in the economical empowerment of impoverished mothers in charge of children and youth at high social risk isn't just the right thing to do, it is also the smart thing to do when we want to create systems of protection and prevention.
Training, equipment and materials for entrepreneurs
Throughout the year, TRANSFORMA offers seminars that empower change makers and community leaders with frameworks and tools for personal and collective transformational change and neuro resilience.