AMMAN — For the second consecutive year,
the Jordan River Foundation (JRF) and the
Aqaba Governorate Council (AGC) have
entered into a collaboration agreement aimed at promoting training programs for
women's and youth empowerment in the southern port city.
اضافة اعلان
Under the foundation's Community
Empowerment Program, the agreement, signed by AGC Chair Emad Amro and JRF
Director General Enaam Barrishi, sets the stage for interventions designed to
enhance the capacity of women and youth. These interventions encompass
self-development, entrepreneurship, psycho-social support, financial literacy,
and workforce readiness, the Jordan News Agency, Petra replied.
Through this partnership, JRF aims to
reach recipients across the southern governorate,
empowering women and young
people socially and economically through grants and the development of their
project management, web marketing, and financial literacy skills.
The project will facilitate the
establishment of enterprises and provide networking opportunities for product
marketing. Additionally, it aims to enhance the handicraft abilities of fifty
women, thereby advancing their professional and personal growth.
Furthermore, the initiative will provide
learning support services and enhance the innovative capacities of one thousand
male and
female students in Aqaba. It plans to disseminate the knowledge gained
from the social innovation lab to isolated villages in the Aqaba region,
extending its reach to underprivileged populations in remote areas.
Activities will include equipping young
people with tools for social innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as
improving their robotics and artificial intelligence skills, with the goal of
nurturing a society that celebrates innovators and inventors.
Women’s
empowerment
In the past year, the project has funded
16 women-led businesses, services, and tourist enterprises, and has provided a
variety of training courses in content production, project management, and
self-empowerment to 87 women.
Moreover, over 1,400 children and
teenagers benefited from the center's child safety initiatives during three
project-related open days organized by JRF. Additionally, ten community
volunteers based in
Aqaba received social innovation training and empowerment,
subsequently mentoring over 2,100 children via the center's mobile social
innovation station.
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