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Adaklu District
Livelihoods Improvement Program
The majority of the world’s 1.3 billion poorest people are women and girls, often prevented from exercising their rights to fully participate in society and suffering disproportionately from this injustice. FHI’s Women’s Economic Empowerment Program in the Adaklu District seeks to address this, as women and girls hold the key to reducing poverty and to making the greatest improvements to the lives of people.
Empowered women contribute a great deal to the prosperity, health and happiness of their communities and to a more promising future for the next generation.
Since we began working in the Adaklu Ziope District in 2015, FHI has supported more six hundred women towards greater participation in accessing economic opportunities and resources, increased voice in decision-making, and access to employment and equitable wages.
In Adaklu, VSLA members are able to take out loans with low interest rates to provide for their families, grow their businesses, or respond to medical emergencies. Expecting mothers are also using their loans to pay for the cost of getting to the health center and the medical fees for delivery. During the VSLA meetings, women also receive information about healthy pregnancies and vaccinations for children. Through collective savings and loan groups, women are becoming more self-sufficient and stable in their families and communities.
Before, if we didn’t have the money, we couldn’t access health services or travel to the hospital. Joining the VSLA has had a big impact on my family’s health.” VSLA member Akosua Adawudu, who took out a loan for her son’s medical expenses.
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