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The Pangea Network is committed to encouraging women by creating opportunities for self-sustaining quality of life improvements. We focus on improving the economic realities and the social conditions of women and their communities through our women's economic and social empowerment programs.
Women's Economic and Social Empowerment Programs
Millions of women worldwide work tirelessly to assist and encourage their communities in an effort to build a better future for themselves and their families. These women often do this at the cost of their own safety, encountering difficult cultural biases along the way, yet they are fearlessly paving new roads for women.
The Pangea Network supports women and organizations who are actively listening to their community members and who have the special ability to transform their needs into positive, empowering and long-lasting activities.
Microenterprise Training for Self-sustaining Projects
Activities include:
- Cooperative formation and registration
- Weekly meetings, which include small business skills training, i.e.
- Bookkeeping
- Savings and loan mechanics
- Personal skill building
- Distribution of small loans/grants
Learn more about microenterprise training by reading about women in two of our cooperatives and how their lives are changing for the better.
Leadership Education and Rights Awareness
An integral part of the microenterprise training is leadership and human rights education. This gives women the knowledge needed to better protect themselves, their bodies and their children, and adds a confident and educated voice to the dialogue in their communities.
Leadership education teaches women how to run their own cooperative; how to define roles, elect cooperative leaders, set goals, and create their own guidelines and participatory rules. Most importantly, seeing what they are capable of achieving builds a feeling of self esteem.
Rights awareness equips women with knowledge of their rights as a woman, a citizen, a mother, and in certain cases, as an HIV-positive person.
Read Catherine's Success Story
Basic Health Education
Basic health education, including sanitation, nutrition and hygiene, are included in our cooperative training. Depending on the needs of the participants, home-based care and HIV/AIDS education may be added to the training, improving the overall health and personal safety of the group.
Community Building Activities
It isn’t always a single woman starting a business. In some circumstances, a cooperative owned business is more beneficial for the women and their families. In these cases, the women begin pooling their resources and energy, building a single business that they all work in, relying on strength in numbers and increasing their power in the community.
