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Women's Resource Hubs
Where women can access financial, educative, legal and psychosocial support.
1,632
Women’s Resource
Hubs members
581
vocational and business skills training graduates
Responsive to local market-based need and opportunity.
145
business loans
To help women start or grow businesses, often following business or skills training.
178
counselling and social support recipients
Including maternal health and newborn support.
101
legal and mediation cases
To support women to pursue justice for gender-based violence and other rights violations.
1000s
of COVID-19 emergency support recipients
And thousands more during the 2015 Nepal earthquakes.
3
women-led grassroots partner organisations in three countries
In Nepal, Cambodia and Burundi.
Our impact model.
Join forces with women on the ground
We back local women and the organisations they run. So far we’ve joined forces with remarkable organisations in Cambodia and Nepal. Learn more about our partners here.
Help them be as effective as they can be
We unlock new sources of funding for our partners. We break down barriers. We open up new markets. We help them overcome their challenges. And we bring new ideas.
Work together to deliver programs for local women
We co-design and deliver programs with our partners that unlock opportunities for women to build better lives. Everything is driven by women themselves - their needs, challenges and aspirations.
Women utilise the tools they have acquired
To start and grow businesses, find better jobs, take legal action for rights violations, start community initiatives like savings circles, and to mentor other women.
The outcome
Women are leading lives with more independence, choice and power than before. They own their knowledge, skills and often their income.
The ripple effect
Women’s families and communities also reap the benefits. Children are healthy and in school, the local economy is more prosperous and inclusive, and there is less poverty.
Stories of change.
Rama
Rama is in her early 30s. She owns a successful business in her local community in Eastern Nepal. She has a good home life, two healthy children in school and a support network of women. But her life wasn’t always this way.
Rama married young to an older man who was physically abusive. With little education she worked long hours unpaid on her family farm, raising two young children. Rama approached her local Women’s Hub deeply unhappy and desperate for help.
At the Hub she learnt about her rights, accessed legal counselling and with the support of 10 other Women's Hub members confronted her husband and demand he change - he did.
Rama later undertook business training, received a business loan and was supported to set up a business.
She now controls her own income, is investing in her children’s health, education and growing her business. She also supports and mentors other women.
“I feel proud to be saving for my children’s future.”
Sarun
Sarun is an employee of Mekong Blue, the business arm of our partner, the Stung Treng Women's Development Centre (SWDC).
One of 12 children, Sarun dropped out of school in Grade 5 to work on the family farm.
In 2002, Sarun attended one of SWDC's health education programs and was subsequently invited to undertake a weaving apprenticeship.
15 years later and still an employee of Mekong Blue, Sarun says the best thing has been having a job and a steady income, which has allowed her to build a house, care for her children, make friends and lead an independent life.
“I feel that my life has changed completely... I can stand on my own two feet.”
Annual reports.
Since 2013, we've been working hard with limited resources to make the biggest impact for women we can. Read our Annual Reports below to understand exactly how we've built our partnerships, mobilised resources and supported women in Nepal and Cambodia to build better lives for themselves, their families and communities.
