About ADEW : What we do
Background on female-headed households
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ADEW seeks to improve the status of women through the following goals:
- Economic empowerment by making credit and income generating opportunities accessible to low-income women.
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Legal empowerment by assisting low-income women with obtaining identification cards and other legal papers and by raising awareness about women’s legal rights.
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Social empowerment by teaching women literacy
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Empowerment of marginalized adolescent girls who have dropped out of school by improving their skills and building their self-esteem.
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Improvement in the status of women’s health in low-income areas, and an increase in women’s awareness of public health issues.
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Publicizing women’s rights issues by lobbying policy makers, the press, and the Egyptian population at large.