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Women Leading for Livelihoods
Making Some Bread
Women Leading for Livelihoods (WLL) is a UNHCR initiative aimed at promoting the economic independence and empowerment of refugee and displaced women and girls around the world. For WLL, women are not victims or passive recipients of aid; with access to the proper resources, they are capable of changing their lives and those of their children, families and communities.
Refugee and displaced women face a series of barriers to work: legal restrictions, physical and psychological trauma, lack of financial resources, child care issues, the wrong skills for their environment, and much more. WLL aims to break down these barriers through the funding of a full range of programmes aimed at empowering refugee and displaced women. Projects range from language and vocational training to classes on farming , marketing and computer literacy as well as basic courses in finance and how to get access to business centres and savings and loan schemes.
To find out more about WLL, write to: E-mail WLL
Funded WLL projects
Read about projects being implemented thanks to private donations.
- Empowerment via vocational training & income generation, New Delhi, India
- Economic Reintegration of Returnee Women and Girls, South Kivu, DRC: A UNHCR Women Leading for Livelihoods Project
- Youth Skills Training in Ifo Camp, Dadaab, Kenya: A UNHCR Women Leading for Livelihoods Project
- Women Initiative Group Sewing Activities, Georgia: A UNHCR Women Leading for Livelihoods Project
- Subsidized First Job for Resettled Women at Risk in Brazil: A UNHCR Women Leading for Livelihoods Project
WLL Projects Seeking Funding
Details of WLL projects which require funding.
- Bangladesh: Skills development, income generation and fair trade, Cox's Bazaar : A UNHCR Women Leading for Livelihoods Project
- Jordan and Syria: Skills training to female survivors of sexual and gender based violence (SGBV): A UNHCR Women Leading for Livelihoods Project
- Serbia: Skills training and microfinance: A UNHCR Women Leading for Livelihoods Project
- Serbia: The MicroFins Bakery: A UNHCR Women Leading for Livelihoods Project
- Mozambique: Skills training for refugees and youths: A UNHCR Women Leading for Livelihoods Project