UGANDA: UEC Family Desk holds women empowerment workshops to boost social transformation
In an effort to boost economic growth and social transformation in Uganda, the Family Desk under the Lay Apostolate Department of the Uganda Episcopal Conference (UEC) organized a series of workshops on Women Empowerment (WE) and Domestic Violence Prevention Campaign.
The workshops, which were held on separate dates from July 25th, August, 2017 to 4th, August, 2017, in Namugongo, Kampala attracted representatives of national women mobilizers, catechists, heads of married men and women as well as diocesan pastoral coordinators and lay apostolate directors.
Mrs. Florence Kwesigabo, the UEC Family Desk National Coordinator said that the aim of the workshop was to help the participants become conversant with the new WE programme and help them identify their roles and responsibilities in the new programme.
“Women Empowerment and Domestic Violence Prevention Campaign (WE-DVPC) is a new programme which started on 1st, March, 2017. It proposes an outcome in which women in targeted areas are free from violence and its associated risks,” said Mrs Kwesigabo adding that they also discussed about the upcoming WE fund-raising dinner slated for 8th, November, 2017.
WE-DVPC is a successor programme of the National Domestic Violence Prevention Campaign Programme (NDVPC) which ended in February 2017. WE-DVPCP is running in all the 19 Catholic Dioceses in Uganda through the national and diocesan structures of the Catholic Church. WE programme commenced with the training of programme staff on programme and finance management.
Meanwhile, the Catholic Church in Uganda under the umbrella of UEC has been running a NDVPC programme in partnership with the Irish organizations, Trocaire Uganda and Irish Aid for the last five years.
The NDVPC programme addressed one of the UEC overall objectives of contributing to elimination of inequalities and ensuring that women, men and children have equal rights and opportunities to fulfill their human potential and play an active role in building society.
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By Jacinta W. Odongo – Media Officer, Uganda Episcopal Conference
