A Call to Dignity : How Indonesia's Women-Headed Household Empowerment Program (PEKKA) is Transforming Lives and Changing Development Paradigms

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 509.59 Historical, geographic, persons treatment
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, DC, 2014
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 293902
• Chủ đề: 1. ACCESS TO EDUCATION; 2. ACCESS TO FINANCE; 3. ACCESS TO HEALTH; 4. ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE; 5. ACCESS TO RESOURCES

Tóm tắt

 Launched in 2001 in response to the plight of a faction of poor women - the widows of the conflict in Aceh Province - the Women-Headed Household Empowerment Program (PEKKA) has mushroomed into a community-driven phenomenon across eight provinces that shows all signs of continued, rapid growth. Emphasizing vision, capacity building, networking, and advocacy for those at the lowest end of the social scale - poor single women heads of households - the PEKKA spark has become a blaze that seemed ready to ignite a national movement. A program that helps the individuals that most aid programs pass over - widows and single women household heads, PEKKA also seeks to embolden poor Indonesian women to take charge of their lives and engage in the development cycle as a cooperative bloc.lt
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