Women for Change (WFC) is a Zambian gender focused NGO working with communities, especially women and children, in rural areas to contribute towards sustainable human development using popular education methodologies.
Mission Statement
"Working with and empowering remote rural communities, especially women to contribute towards sustainable development and the eradication of all forms of poverty."
Rosemary Mtonga of Muzamu village, in Chief Magodi’s area, Lundazi is commending Women for Change over what it has done to her and many others in the village in uplifting their standards and giving them hope for the future.
Rosemary says, “Unlike many other organizations that have been to their area and cheating people and losing a lot of money in registration fees and other contributions without any benefits, Women for Change have come with practical steps to improve people’s lives in the area.”
“A girl aged 16 years got married. She found it had to carry out home chores and would always wish she was in school whenever she saw her friends going to school in uniforms” narrates a Mr. Mtonga of Chinkhamu Area Association in Lundazi.
Fortunately for her, when Women for Change came into the area, the girl attended the first gender sensitisation session held by staff and friends who had accepted the message of Women for Change and immediately made up her mind to divorce.
She had only stayed in marriage for three months. She divorced and went back to her parents where she joined a youth group under the area association and was able to participate in activities to empower youths.
Women for Change and its Executive Director Emily Joy Sikazwe have been awarded the Gender Torch intended to spark renewed interest and sustained action to achieve the third United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment by 2015.
