we seek to promote and protect the right of women and girls through education, advocacy and capacity building /empowerment
we seek to promote and protect the right of women and girls through education, advocacy and capacity building /empowerment
A breed of strong self-reliant women who can challenge issues that affect them-seeing them growing in violence free society
The main objective is to overcome female genital cutting that affects more than 90 percent of Sierra-Leonean women, and girls.
AIM also addresses women’s rights violations like forced marriage and domestic violence and promote girls Education
The Amazonian Initiative Movement abbreviated as AIM , is an independent women’s rights organization founded in November 2000 by refugee women at the then Kalia Refugee Camp in Conakry Guinea. Amazonian Initiative Movement (AIM) is a registered Non-Governmental Organization recognized by Ministry of Social Welfare Gender and Children’s Affairs, SLANGO, Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Development and Economic Planning.
the Water Well against FGM project funded by BMZ/Pfefferminzgreen. This project aimed at reducing the high level of violence perpetrated against women and girls in rural communities especially on the abduction of young girls into FGM. The roads to the stream were mostly used as a trap for the forceful initiation into FGM.
Village savings and loan is a scheme used by AIM Sierra Leone in-order to boost the economy of women especially the Ex-FGM Practitioners. The organization has supported about 25 groups of women with trainings, seed money, savings boxes and stationaries. These groups have been monitored on weekly basis so as to provide them the needed technical and moral support for the normal functioning of the various groups. This has helped to reshape the economic activities of these women through the engagement in small scale businesses to support the education of their children and their daily up-keeping
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AIM-SL has formed and trained about 1,500 school pupils [150 clubs of influence] across the regions. This is to ensure that, school going pupils are educated on the negative effects of FGM
AIM- Sierra Leone has supported rural women especially Ex-Sowies through the Women in Agriculture Project supported by Pfefferminzgreen . The project provided seeds, agricultural equipment and food for work for the 10 groups of women in rural communities.
Village savings and loan is a scheme used by AIM Sierra Leone in-order to boost the economy of women especially the Ex-FGM Practitioners. The organization has supported about 25 groups of women with trainings, seed money, savings boxes and stationaries.
It seeks to promote and protect the right of women and girls through education, advocacy and capacity building /empowerment.
A breed of strong self-reliant women who can challenge issues that affect them-seeing them growing in violence free society
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Office Address: 48 Falaba Road Port Loko
Phone Number: +23276738517
Email Address: Info@aimsierraleone.org