{"id":24030,"date":"2023-02-26T09:36:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T09:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highatlasfoundation.org\/?p=24030"},"modified":"2023-02-27T15:48:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T15:48:09","slug":"candle-light-and-womens-empowerment-in-bir-gandus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/candle-light-and-womens-empowerment-in-bir-gandus\/","title":{"rendered":"Candle Light and Women’s Empowerment in Bir Gandus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hajiba Boumasmar<\/em>
\nHAF Program Manager<\/em><\/p>\n

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A remarkable candle was lit with a group of women in Bir Gandus commune. Forty civil society representatives attended the women\u2019s empowerment workshop conducted by HAF trainers Hajiba Boumasmar and Hana Ezaoui under the program \u201cParticipatory Planning and Implementing of\u00a0 Community Initiatives in Dakhla Oued Ed Edahab Region,\u201d in partnership between HAF and the U.S. Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) that began on the first of October 2022.<\/p>\n

Bir Gandus is one of the municipalities selected for this program along with two others – Dakhla and Bir Anzarane. From January 5-8, 2023, the team facilitated the women\u2019s empowerment workshops with the women of Bir Gandus.<\/p>\n

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All the participants are members of a cooperative or association, which confirms the public service work and commitment of the women in this municipality. They have diverse activities and visions, but the link between them is empowerment and this new program that we are working on together to promote and encourage their community initiatives that will help to develop their livelihoods.<\/p>\n

The women\u2019s cooperatives of couscous, sewing tents, producing traditional perfumes and cosmetics, and sheep and camel ranching are their major projects. Therefore, the women requested to develop their cooperatives, are focused on generating new revenue, and seek to benefit from different training, such as financial management, marketing, partnership-building, and communication.<\/p>\n

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Halima, a young mom of three children, shared her experience as a persevering woman, who challenged the odds and difficult situations five years ago and created a cooperative for producing couscous. She is a brave person who stood up in front of 40 people and gave suggestions for changing one\u2019s mindset and lifestyle, making no excuses and no more procrastination. She said, \u201cSince we have good health and we are able to move, we can drive a car, see the light in people, and we have everything to work and be responsible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hajiba Boumasmar HAF Program Manager A remarkable candle was lit with a group of women in Bir Gandus commune. Forty civil society representatives attended the women\u2019s empowerment workshop conducted by HAF trainers Hajiba Boumasmar and Hana Ezaoui under the program \u201cParticipatory Planning and Implementing of\u00a0 Community Initiatives in Dakhla Oued Ed Edahab Region,\u201d in partnership<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":24031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[130],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Hajiba.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24032,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24030\/revisions\/24032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}