Zambian Women With Skills Organisation

𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐁𝐈𝐆 𝐈𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆💥💥🎉🎉




Calling All Trailblazing Female Entrepreneurs! 🔥

Are you ready to supercharge your business? This October, something game-changing is coming your way!😍

The Zambian Women With Skills Organisation, in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy Zambia and The Diamond Incubator Ltd, is launching a dynamic Project tailored just for you.🫵🙂

Prepare to 𝐄𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐩, 𝐄𝐧𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 your business with cutting-edge skills, powerful mentorship, and a spotlight on a scheduled market day that could transform your future!!

Don’t miss this chance—keep an eye out for the official application call! 💪

𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 🌟

This years International Women’s Day, which was celebrated on March 8, 2024, saw us celebrating this monumental day with a 2 day catering skills training for our second group of trainees drawn from the Libala catchment area.

This years' theme of “Inspire Inclusion” resonates with the essence of women’s empowerment, emphasizing the importance of skills development as a pathway to sustainable progress.

For us as an organization, we believe the heart of inclusion lies in empowering women to actively participate, contribute, and thrive. Skills development for women,creates a cycle of inspiration, causing entire communities to be lifted.

We continue to create a suitable platform for women to build their capacity in various skills which they can then translate into sustainable streams of income.

Congratulations to our founder for being featured in today's edition of the Zambia Daily Mail👏👏👏.

We remain committed to "changing the lives of Zambian Women,one woman at a time." 🙏🙏

The deadline is fast approaching, Apply today!!

THE GRADUATE 🎓 LAUNCH PAD PROGRAM

As we approach our Application deadline for our Inaugural GLP Program on the 31st of July 2023, below are some answers to most of your Frequently Asked Questions about this particular Program:

1. What are the charges for this Program?

☆ This Program is completely FREE, but will require you to facilitate for your own logistical costs as they relate to you attending this Program for both the onsite and virtual sessions.

2. Who is eligible to participate in this Program?

☆ Any recent female graduate between the age of 20-28 that graduated from any higher learning Institution within Zambia between 2019 and 2023.

3. Are the differently abled individuals eligible to participate?

☆ Yes!! Any recent graduate regardless of your physical limitations is eligible to participate in this Program. Provision to accommodate individuals with special needs will be made accordingly.

4. As an Alumni of a past US sponsored/supported Program do I qualify to participate in this Program?

☆Unfortunately, while you may qualify on merit to participate in this Program, priority will be given to those that are not yet Alumni in this regard.

5. Can I submit two or more applications in order to increase my chances of being selected?

☆ Unfortunately a detection by the system of multiple submissions will result in you being automatically disqualified from participating in this program.

6. If my work schedule can not allow me to fully participate in the Program,can I be allowed to attend only a few sessions and still graduate?

☆ Unfortunately due to the intensive nature of the program, all participants are required to commit to a 100% participation commitment from the onset or risk being removed from the Program.

While this list of FAQs may not be exhaustive, these guidelines should be able to give would-be participants an idea of some expectations from the Program.

If you haven't already signed up yet, kindly follow the link below and Apply before the 31st of July 2023 for a spot in this Inaugural cohort👇👇.

https://forms.gle/UMKc8BM2cQnx7FgG9

Applications are now open!!!🎉🎉🎉📣📣✨️✨️

📣📣 GRADUATE LAUNCH PAD PROGRAM - APPLICATIONS OPEN💥💥

Calling all recent Female graduates from any of the local Universities or colleges within Zambia, that are interested in fully tapping into, and showcasing their inherent leadership skills, to apply for this exciting new Leadership development Program that is a 3 way collaboration between the U.S. Embassy Zambia , the Zambian Women With Skills Organisation , and the Diamond Incubator Ltd through its Leaders Arise Program .

This Program has been designed as a launching pad for newly graduated university and college women aged 22-28, to acquire the tools and confidence they need to be able to overcome the various societal & professional barriers that would hinder them from being able to thrive as trail blazing leaders in their chosen industry.

Apply before the 31st of July 2023 for a spot in this Inaugural cohort using the link below...

https://forms.gle/UMKc8BM2cQnx7FgG9

*VERY LIMITED SLOTS AVAILABLE!!!

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📣📣NEW COHORT BASED GRADUATE PROGRAM LOADING...💥💥

Are you a recent Female graduate from any of the local Universities or colleges within Zambia, that is interested in having a solid foundation in leadership principles, a greater understanding of the challenges and opportunities in your professional path, and the confidence to use these new found skills in real-world situations at communitylevel? Then this Program is for you🫵☺️.

Through the collaborative efforts of the Zambian Women With Skills Organization, the U.S. Embassy Zambia & our flagship Leaders Arise Program, we aim to equip you with the tools and confidence you need to be the change-makers of tomorrow, regardless of your current employment status.

Look out for an announcement of the official opening of Applications on this page, as well as various other platforms SOON✨️✨️.

Yesterday the 24th of May 2023, our Projects Coordinator, Ms Susan K Phiri, while in the company of other stakeholders, attended a planning meeting organized by The Zambia Food Bank at the Global platform Zambia office.

The Food Bank intends to work with the Zambian Women With Skills Organization with regards to the introduction of back yard gardens to enable community members have access to fresh organic food.

As part of the proposed program, the participants will also be trained in best practices in food and Nutrition, seeing as the demographic to be worked with hail from a predominantly rural area which according to research, is a fairly neglected topic in such areas.

Another proposed key area of training will be on clean water and sanitation methods, such as simple but effective water initiatives to assist community members who still struggle each day to have clean & safe water for daily use and also to help curb water pollution of both underground and surface water.

Exposure to such information will help raise awareness on issues to do with water in rural the different underserved communities.

Apart from Ms. Phiri, others in attendance were Allie Wilson -a food recovery and rescue specialist working with *Means Data base* USA. Ruth Ngoma - Scientists, Entrepreneurship and partner.Enock Mwewa -Founder of the Zambia Food Bank, as well as Eric a young Zambian Farmer who only grows organic Foods with no chemicals or fertilisers.

We remain committed to changing the lives of Zambian Women one woman at a time.

SUSTAINABLE WOMEN'S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT PROJECT (SWEEP). "INCLUSION EDITION."

Our ZWWS SWEEP (Inclusion Edition) women are back in session for the second part of the Project, which will see them acquire basic Tailoring skills, as well as tailoring start up packages and certificates at the end of this training cycle.

This US funded project which was launched late last year 2022, is a community initiative that seeks to help contribute to the rebalancing of the existing social and economic hierarchies in different communities in Zambia, through vocational skills empowerment for women.

The project which was piloted in 2018 with trainees drawn from Lusaka's Ngombe Compound, follows an implementation model that can be replicated in other underserved communities similar to the project pilot community.

The skills empowerment trainings offered through this project are therefore an attempt to catalyse business action for women’s empowerment, and deliver value for vocational business skills by developing high-impact women’s empowerment strategies, driving social and economic progress for women at both community and national levels.

All the 20 women with speech impairments that are undergoing this training, were selected from different communities within Lusaka through our partner organisation i.e. the Zambia National Association of the Deaf (ZNAD) which is already on the ground within the community, actively working with the demographic in question.

We are hopeful that the combination of the skills acquired, plus the start-up material, will help the women set up a small business and in turn, effectively contribute to the overall economic cycle of their communities.

We remain committed to “Changing the lives of Zambian women, one woman at a time.”


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INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY 2023.

As the world commemorates International Women's Day, today the 8th of March 2023,we remain alive to the fact that the barriers that continue to hinder women from making progressive contributions to the wellbeing of every society, continue to be perpetuated in different degrees.

This year, the theme for the celebration is innovation and technology for gender equality, according to DigitALL. Given this theme, it is an opportunity for us as an Organization to reflect on the progress that has been made so far towards gender equality, as well as the work still needed to ensure that women have equal opportunities and rights in not just the tech space, but all areas of life.

We remain commited to, "changing the lives of Zambian Women, one woman at a time."